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Author:

Thomson, Shawn, author.

Title:

Division and imagined unity in the American renaissance : the seamless whole / Shawn Thomson.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxvi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Material culture in literature.
United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
American literature.
Intellectual life.
Literature and society.
Material culture in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
United States.
1783-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Seams and seamlessness in antebellum America -- Christ's seamless robe and the material-spiritual duality in the American renaissance -- Seam by seam: Emily Dickinson's seamless theory of mind -- The seamless web of John S. Sauzade's The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle -- Three literary men: the intertwined lives of Herman Melville, George Washington Peck, and John S. Sauzade -- The seamless whole: national fictions in Herman Melville's Moby-dick (1851), Pierre (1852), and The confidence-man (1857) -- Melville's unraveling in the angelicalness of Pierre -- Epilogue: Loomings of futurity in the seams of Don DeLillo's White noise.

ISBN:

1683931092
9781683931096

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002116015

LCCN:

2017038053

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)