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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Finan, E. Thomas. Reading reality Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021. (DLC) 2020033425 |
Named Person: | Ralph Waldo Emerson; Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Walt Whitman |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
E Thomas Finan |
ISBN: | 9780813945590 0813945593 9780813945606 0813945607 |
OCLC Number: | 1178869418 |
Description: | x, 209 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | One. Real excavations -- Two. The drops of summer rain -- Three. In and out of the game with Walt Whitman -- Four. Disjunction - disclosure - Dickinson -- Five. Challenging appearances. |
Responsibility: | E. Thomas Finan. |
Abstract:
Reveals how antebellum authors used words such as "real" and "reality" as key terms for literary discourse and claimed that the "real" was, in fact, central to their literary enterprise. Thomas Finan argues that for many Americans in the early nineteenth century, the "real" was often not synonymous with the physical world.
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- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Realism in literature.
- Reality in literature.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Réalisme dans la littérature.
- Réalité dans la littérature.
- Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882.
- Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892.
- American literature.