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A historical guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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ISBN: 0195124146 0195124138 9780195124132 9780195124149 1429401591 9781429401593 9786610530113 6610530114 1280530111 9781280530111 0199728046 9780199728046 0197724558 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,


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Righteous violence : revolution, slavery, and the American renaissance
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ISBN: 1283253062 9786613253064 0820342114 9780820342115 9781283253062 9780820328256 0820328251 9780820341408 0820341401 6613253065 Year: 2011 Publisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press,

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Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writers-Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. These authors responded not only to the state terror of slavery and the Civil War but also to more problematic violent acts, including unlawful revolts, insurrections, riots, and strikes that resulted in bloodshed and death. Rather than position these writers for or against the struggle for liberty, Larry J. Reynolds examines the profoundly contingent and morally complex perspectives of each author. Tracing the shifting and troubled moral arguments in their work, Reynolds shows that these writers, though committed to peace and civil order, at times succumbed to bloodlust, even while they expressed ambivalence about the very violence they approved. For many of these authors, the figure of John Brown loomed large as an influence and a challenge. Reynolds examines key works such as Fuller's European dispatches, Emerson's political lectures, Douglass's novella The Heroic Slave, Thoreau's Walden, Alcott's Moods, Hawthorne's late unfinished romances, and Melville's Billy Budd. In addition to demonstrating the centrality of righteous violence to the American Renaissance, this study deepens and complicates our understanding of political violence beyond the dichotomies of revolution and murder, liberty and oppression, good and evil.


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The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature.
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ISBN: 1138806544 1315751623 1317615719 Year: 2019 Publisher: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,

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"Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in which they must be studied. Larry J. Reynolds usefully groups authors together for more lively and fruitful discussion and engages with current as well as historical theoretical debates on the area. The book includes essential biographical and historical information to situate and contextualise the literature, and incorporates major relevant criticism into each chapter. Recommended readings for further study, along with a list of works cited, concludes each chapter"--

Woman in the nineteenth century : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism
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ISBN: 0393971570 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Norton,

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National imaginaries, American identities: the cultural work of American iconography
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ISBN: 0691009945 0691009953 0691227721 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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New historical literary study: essays on reproducing texts, representing history
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ISBN: 0691069905 Year: 1993 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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New historical literary study: essays on reproducing texts, representing history
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ISBN: 0691015465 0691069905 0691233365 Year: 1993 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Devils and rebels : the making of Hawthorne's damned politics
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ISBN: 9780472116690 047211669X 0472034332 9786612593840 0472025945 1282593846 9780472025947 9781282593848 6612593849 9780472034338 Year: 2008 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,


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These sad but glorious days: dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850
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ISBN: 0300050380 Year: 1991 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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National Imaginaries, American Identities

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