John Neal and nineteenth-century American literature and culture
By: edited by Edward Watts, and David J. Carlson
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781611484205; 9781611484212
Subjects: Critics; Criticism and interpretation; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: John Neal : across the American renaissance / Edward Watts and; title: David J. Carlson; title: "I must resemble nobody": John Neal, genre, and the making of American literary nationalism / Matthew Pethers; title: "The herbage of death": haunted environments in John Neal and James Fenimore Cooper / Matthew Wynn Sivils; title: Eye-witness to history: the anti-narrative aesthetic of Neal's Seventy-Six / Jeffrey Insko; title: Notes on poetic push-pin and the writing of life in John Neal's authorship / Jorg Thomas Richter; title: Celebrated rubbish: John Neal and the commercialization of early American Romanticism / Maya Merlob; title: John Neal, the rise of the critick, and the rise of American art / Francesca Orestano; title: John Neal and John Dunn Hunter / Jonathan Elmer; title: "Another declaration of independence": John Neal's Rachel Dyer and the assault on precedent / David J. Carlson; title: Here, there, and everywhere: the elusive regionalism of John Neal / Kerin Holt; title: "He could not believe that butchering Red men was serving our maker": 'David Whicher' and the Indian hater tradition / Edward Watts; title: John Neal and the early discourse of women's rights / Karen Weyler; title: "A right manly man" in 1843: John Neal on women's rights and the problem of male feminism / Fritz Fleischmann; title: How John Neal wrote his autobiography / Kevin J. Hayes.