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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"American literature--19th century--History and criticism"”.
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The Other Vanishing American: Disappearing Farmers in American Literature, 1887-1939.
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, literary depictions of farmers borrow from the established trope of the Vanishing American' Indian to portray farmers as disappearing before the forces of modern civilization. I argue that writing about farmers from this era ought to be approached as a type …
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Beloved Savages and Other Outsiders: Genre and Gender Transgressions in the Travel Writings of Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard
… study of the travel writings of three nineteenth-century American authors, Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard. I argue that these writers evinced a rebellion encompassing literary as well as political and social subversion. In order to succeed in their rebellion, they …
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… to strive, amidst the uncertainty of time and opinion, to depict their fondness for the jaunty tale or absurd anecdote in an inoffensive yet richly expressive style. The above quotations all pivot upon nonsense and exaggeration, a favorite mode of many of the greatest writers in the …