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The Complicity of Imagination

The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

AvRobin Grey,Albert Gelpi,Ross Posnock

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The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship between four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England. Challenging the notion that antebellum Americans were burdened by a sense of cultural inferiority in both their thought and their writing, this 1997 study portrays an American Renaissance whose writers were deeply enough read in the literature and controversies of seventeenth-century England to appropriate its cultural artifacts for their own purposes. By exploring the broader cultural implications of intertextual relationships, this book demonstrates how literary texts participate in the artistic, political and theological tensions within American culture.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-04-13
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor310
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521495387

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