| Description |
xxxiv, 319 p. : ill. cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- John Neal : across the American renaissance / Edward Watts and -- David J. Carlson -- "I must resemble nobody": John Neal, genre, and the making of American literary nationalism / Matthew Pethers -- "The herbage of death": haunted environments in John Neal and James Fenimore Cooper / Matthew Wynn Sivils -- Eye-witness to history: the anti-narrative aesthetic of Neal's Seventy-Six / Jeffrey Insko -- Notes on poetic push-pin and the writing of life in John Neal's authorship / Jorg Thomas Richter -- Celebrated rubbish: John Neal and the commercialization of early American Romanticism / Maya Merlob -- John Neal, the rise of the critick, and the rise of American art / Francesca Orestano -- John Neal and John Dunn Hunter / Jonathan Elmer -- "Another declaration of independence": John Neal's Rachel Dyer and the assault on precedent / David J. Carlson -- Here, there, and everywhere: the elusive regionalism of John Neal / Kerin Holt -- "He could not believe that butchering Red men was serving our maker": 'David Whicher' and the Indian hater tradition / Edward Watts -- John Neal and the early discourse of women's rights / Karen Weyler -- "A right manly man" in 1843: John Neal on women's rights and the problem of male feminism / Fritz Fleischmann -- How John Neal wrote his autobiography / Kevin J. Hayes. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Neal, John, 1793-1876 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Critics -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Watts, Edward, 1964-
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Carlson, David J., 1970-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781611484205 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781611484212 (electronic bk.) |
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