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"Explores art history and imaginative literature to show how fiction and history inform each other. Traces the modern idea of the artist to the epic tradition from Homer and Ovid to Dante, leading to Michelangelo. Examines how Vasari shaped Balzac's idea of the artist, and Balzac influenced Picasso's"--Provided by publisher.

Artists --- Literature and history. --- Art --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Persons --- History. --- Historiography. --- Balzac. --- Dante. --- Leonardo. --- Michelangelo. --- Picasso. --- Vasari. --- comic mock heroic poetry. --- fiction imagination art art history. names such as Homer Ovid.

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This work claims that the history of the nation is hidden in plain sight, within the pages of twentieth-century American literature. The author argues that the nation's fiction and nonfiction expose a "secret history" that cuts beneath the "straight histories" of our official accounts. And it does so by revealing personal stories of love, work, family, war, and interracial romance as they were lived out across the decades of the twentieth century. He reads authors both familiar and neglected, examining "double consciousness" in the post Civil War era through works by Charles W. Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington. He reveals aspects of the Depression in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anzia Yezierska, and John Steinbeck. Period by period, the author's readings recover the felt sense of life as it was lived, opening dimensions of the critical issues of a given time. The rise of the women's movement, for example, is revivified in new appraisals of works by Eudora Welty, Ann Petry, and Mary McCarthy. Running through the examination of individual works and times is his argument about reading itself. Reading is not a passive activity but an empathetic act of cocreation, what Faulkner calls "overpassing to love." Empathetic reading recognizes and relives the emotional, cultural, and political dimensions of an individual and collective past. And discovering a usable American past, as the author shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment.

Geschiedenis in de literatuur --- Histoire dans la littérature --- History in literature --- American fiction --- History in literature. --- Literature and history --- History and criticism. --- History. --- United States --- In literature. --- History and criticism --- In literature --- History --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history

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Collective memory in literature --- English fiction --- Historical fiction, English --- History in literature --- Literature and history --- 820 "19" --- 82.04 --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- English literature --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- History and criticism --- Great Britain --- Historiography.

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"... the authors assess British Romanticism's creative and polemical engagements with the Peninsular War, the bid of Spanish American colonies to establish independence with British support, and the impact of travel narratives about Spain and the Americas."--P. [4] of cover.

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The New Historicism of the 1980's and early 1990's was preoccupied with the fashioning of early modern subjects. But, Jonathan Gil Harris notes, the pronounced tendency now is to engage with objects. From textiles to stage beards to furniture, objects are read by literary critics as closely as literature used to be. For a growing number of Renaissance and Shakespeare scholars, the play is no longer the thing: the thing is the thing. Curiously, the current wave of "thing studies" has largely avoided posing questions of time. How do we understand time through a thing? What is the time of a thing? In Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Harris challenges the ways we conventionally understand physical objects and their relation to history. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, Harris considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials. He reveals that many "Renaissance" objects were actually survivals from an older time-the medieval monastic properties that, post-Reformation, were recycled as stage props in the public playhouses, or the old Roman walls of London, still visible in Shakespeare's time. Then, as now, old objects were inherited, recycled, repurposed; they were polytemporal or palimpsested. By treating matter as dynamic and temporally hybrid, Harris addresses objects in their futurity, not just in their encapsulation of the past. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare is a bold study that puts the matériel-the explosive, world-changing potential-back into a "material culture" that has been too often understood as inert stuff.

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