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Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.
Mythology in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Mythology; Antebellum America; Vormärz Germany; Politics; National Identity; Narratology; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Karl Gutzkow; William Wells Brown; Heinrich Heine; America; Culture; American Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; Literary Studies --- America. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Antebellum America. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Heinrich Heine. --- Karl Gutzkow. --- Literary Studies. --- Narratology. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- National Identity. --- Politics. --- Vormärz Germany. --- William Wells Brown.
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In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal–humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms “xeno,” which connotes alien or stranger, and “citizen,” which signals a naturalized subject of a state, Berger uncovers realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant paradigms. Innovatively re-orienting our thinking about traditional nineteenth-century figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as well as formative writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin R. Delany, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Xenocitizens glimpses how antebellum thinkers formulated, in response to varying forms of oppression and crisis, startlingly unique ontological and social models as well as unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change. In doing so, Berger offers us a different nineteenth century—pushing our imaginative and critical thinking toward new terrain.
American literature --- Politics and literature --- Liberalism in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- Liberalism --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History --- Harriet Beecher Stowe. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Margaret Fuller. --- Martin Delany. --- Nineteenth-century American literature. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- William Wells Brown. --- antebellum U.S. --- ecology. --- liberalism. --- neoliberalism. --- ontology.
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