Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910

Author:   Claudia Stokes
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780807830406


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 October 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910


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"In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous ""ills"" - from burgeoning immigration to American anti-intellectualism to demanding university administrators - and enjoyed immense popularity between 1880 and 1910. In the first major analysis of the field's early decades, Claudia Stokes offers important insights into the practices, beliefs, and values that shaped the emerging discipline and have continued to shape it for the last century. She considers particular personalities - including Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Dean Howells, Brander Matthews, and Mark Twain - and episodes that had a formative effect on American literary history as a discipline. Reexamining the field's deep attachment to the literature of antebellum New England, the periodization of the nineteenth century, and the omission of Native narratives, Stokes reveals the many forces, both inside and outside the academy, that propelled the rise of American literary history and persist as influences on the work of current practitioners of the field."

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Author:   Claudia Stokes
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780807830406


ISBN 10:   0807830402
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 October 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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This is a book that has both historical range and vivid detail; its argument is original and its topic is timely.June Howard, University of Michigan A valuable addition to our understanding of how American literature was institutionalized as an academic discipline. -- Modern Philology [A] much needed map of the networks and context that informed literary histories written during the late nineteenth century. -- American Book Review Admirably integrates an array of archival gems found in the personal papers of her subjects. -- New England Quarterly


This is a book that has both historical range and vivid detail; its argument is original and its topic is timely.<p>June Howard, University of Michigan


[A] much needed map of the networks and context that informed literary histories written during the late nineteenth century. <br> -- American Book Review


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CLAUDIA STOKES is assistant professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio. She is coeditor of American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader.

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