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9780812223668 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, November 7, 2016, cover price $24.95
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9780812223651 | Reprint edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, August 30, 2016), cover price $16.95
Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contributors to this volume showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, and conceptions of identity into their critiques. Essays combine close readings of individual works and authors with more theoretical discussions of aesthetic theory and its relation to American literature. In their introduction, Weinstein and Looby argue that aesthetics never left American literary critique. Instead, the essay casts the current "return to aesthetics" as the natural consequence of shortcomings in deconstruction and new historicism, which led to a reconfiguration of aesthetics. Subsequent essays demonstrate the value and versatility of aesthetic considerations in literature, from eighteenth-century poetry to twentieth-century popular music. Organized into four groupsâpolitics, form, gender, and theoryâcontributors revisit the canonical works of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Stephen Crane, introduce the overlooked texts of Constance Fenimore Woolson and Earl Lind, and unpack the complexities of the music of The Carpenters. Deeply rooted in an American context, these essays explore literature's aesthetic dimensions in connection to American liberty and the formation of political selfhood.Contributors include Edward Cahill, Ivy G. Wilson, June Ellison, Dorri Beam, Christopher Castiglia, Christopher Looby, Wendy Steiner, Cindy Weinstein, Trish Loughran, Jonathan Freedman, Elisa New, Dorothy Hale, Mary Esteve, Eric Lott, Sianne Ngai
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9780231156165 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 10, 2012, cover price $105.00
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9780231156172, titled "American Literatureâs Aesthetic Dimensions" | Columbia Univ Pr, July 10, 2012, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Rethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social criticism, the contributors to this volume showcase the interpretive possibilities available to those who bring politics, culture, ideology, and conceptions of identity into their critiques.
The colonel of the first regiment of black men in the Union Army and an early crusader for civil rights shares his thoughts on race relations, slavery, and the Civil War in a remarkable collection of his letters and journal entries.
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9780226333304 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: The colonel of the first regiment of black men in the Union Army and an early crusader for civil rights shares his thoughts on race relations, slavery, and the Civil War in a remarkable collection of his letters and journal entries.
How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan, and others as Looby unravels the texts of Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge and connects them to nation-building, political discourse, and self-creation. Correcting the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture in eighteenth-century America, Voicing America uncovers the complex process of early American writers articulating their new nation and reveals a body of literature and a political discourse thoroughly concerned with the power of vocal language.
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9780226492827 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: How is a nation brought into being?
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9780226492834, titled "Voicing America: Language, Literary Form and the Origins of the United States" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1997), cover price $26.00
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9781590172292 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, January 15, 2008), cover price $19.95
9781508722885 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 1, 1836, cover price $14.50
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