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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hamilton, Kristie. America's sketchbook. Athens : Ohio University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605233654 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kristie Hamilton |
| ISBN: | 0821411993 9780821411995 |
| OCLC Number: | 36969810 |
| Description: | xiii, 190 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Sketch and Local authority -- Piecework and reverie -- Mass-market intimacy -- Private pleasures and the idea of democracy -- Genres of the middling classes -- the logic of leisure -- "To play the companion" -- Rambles in residence -- The "convincing air of locality" -- Unsettled Regions of American authenticity -- Southern oddities -- Speaking pictures of Divided Loyalties -- The Politics of literature -- A disturbing sense of privacy -- "Whetting the Swords that slay them" -- Women refusing fiction -- Melville's female factory and fraternal discomfort -- Shades of barbarism and sleepless vigilance -- Speed, technology, and the subject of vision -- Dioramic literature, the metropolis, and the nation -- The everyday life of the American sketch. |
| Responsibility: | Kristie Hamilton. |
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- American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- American essays -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
- Short stories, American -- History and criticism.
- United States -- Civilization -- 19th century.
- Literary form -- History -- 19th century.
- Realism in literature.
- Aesthetics, American.
- Amerikaans.
- Letterkunde.
- Realisme (letterkunde)
- Beschrijvingen.
- Sketch
- Skizze (Literatur)
- USA
