John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.
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Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Rowe's work is particularly innovative in taking account of the public, cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture, American studies, and cultural studies.
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The first study to track American literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the Revolution to World War II An innovative and engrossing account that will earn comparisons to the work of Edward Said and Richard Slotkin
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John Carlos Rowe is Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine and the author of At Emersons Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature, The Other Henry James, and Through the Custom-House: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Modern Theory.
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The first study to track American literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the Revolution to World War II An innovative and engrossing account that will earn comparisons to the work of Edward Said and Richard Slotkin
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ISBN
9780195131505
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
685 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
394

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Biographical note

John Carlos Rowe is Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine and the author of At Emersons Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature, The Other Henry James, and Through the Custom-House: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Modern Theory.