Writing revolution
Subtitle: aesthetics and politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau
By: Peter J. Bellis.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Political and social views; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Political and social views; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Political and social views; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Aesthetics; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Aesthetics; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Aesthetics; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Revolutionary literature, American -- History and criticism; Aesthetics, American
Other titles: Aesthetics and politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau
Description: "In Writing Revolution, Peter J. Bellis explores the ways in which literature can engage with - rather than escape from or obscure - social and political issues.".

"Bellis argues that a number of nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathanial Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, saw their texts as spaces where alternative social and cultural possibilities could be suggested and explored. All writing in the same historical moment, Bellis's subjects were responding to the same cluster of issues: the need to redefine America identity after the Revolution, the problem of race slavery, and the growing industrialization of American society.".

"In addition to covering selected works by Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau, Bellis also examines powerful works of social and political critique by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller. With its suggestions for new ways of reading antebellum American writing, Writing Revolution breaks through the thickets of contemporary literary discourse and will spark debate in the literary community."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Eighteenth Brumaire and the Magic lantern; title: Hawthorne's drama of revolt; title: Mauling Governor Pyncheon; title: Moonshine and masquerade; title: Whitman in 1855 : against representation; title: 1856 and after; title: To reconcile the people and the stones; title: Division and revenge; title: Conclusion : civil wars.