Intellectual authority and literary culture in the US, 1790-1900
By: edited by Günter Leypoldt
Series: American studies -- volume 242; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 242.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9783825362607
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture  -- Gunter Leypoldt; title: Inventing the Public Intellectual: Conflicting Models  -- Lawrence Buell; title: Joseph Dennie, John Carroll, and the Quest for a Limited Authority  -- Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan; title: Shifting Positions: The Literary Intellectual in Charles Brockden Brown's "Walstein's School of History" and Arthur Mervyn  -- Dietmar Schloss; title: The Authority of the Novel within Literature and of Literature within Culture: An American Case  -- Jonathan Arac; title: The Development of Literature as Art and the Authority of Fiction  -- Martin Klepper; title: Alternatives to Professional Autonomy: N.P. Willis and Margaret Fuller in the Antebellum American Literary Field -- John Evelev.; title: Specters of Feminization in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture  -- Gunter Leypoldt; title: "Properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men": Frederick Douglass's Exceptional Position in the Field of Slavery  -- Christa Buschendorf; title: Women Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century Domestic Fiction  -- Isabell Klaiber; title: Out of Bounds: American Visions of the Thinker and of Thinking  -- Herwig Friedl; title: Collected Editions and the Consolidation of Cultural Authority: The Case of Henry James  -- Michael Anesko; title: "The Short Cut to Posterity": Authority and Representation in Henry James's Literary Tales  -- Timo Muller; title: "A Blackguard's Faulty Vision": Ambrose Bierce's Modern Cynicism and Its Claim for Intellectual Authority  -- Jan Stievermann; title: Thomas Eakins: Superiority and Inferiority as Sources of Symbolic Capital -- Winfried Fluck.