Authorship and Audience : : Literary Performance in the American Renaissance / / Stephen Railton.
Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing artist and the text as an enactment of the drama of its own performance. Railton focuses on how major prose works of the period are preoccupied with their readers--how they seek to...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Chapter I. THE ANXIETY OF PERFORMANCE
- Chapter II. THE HIGH PRIZE OF ELOQUENCE": EMERSON AS ORATOR
- Chapter III. HE DID NOT FEEL HIMSELF EXCEPT IN OPPOSITION": THOREAU'S WALDEN
- Chapter IV. MOTHERS, HUSBANDS, AND AN UNCLE: STOWE'S UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
- Chapter V. THE DEMOCRATIC NONESUCH: SOUTHWESTERN HUMOR
- Chapter VI. TO OPEN AN INTERCOURSE WITH THE WORLD": HAWTHORNE'S SCARLET LETTER
- Chapter VII. "AT THE WRITER'S CONTROL": POE'S PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPOSITION
- Chapter VIII. YOU MUST HAVE PLENTY OF SEA-ROOM TO TELL THE TRUTH IN": MELVILLE'S MOBY-DICK
- Chapter IX. CONCLUSION: "WHO AIN'T A SLAVE?"
- NOTES
- INDEX