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Modernist Parody

Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature

By: Sarah Davison

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Modernist Parody

Imitation, Origination, and Experimentation in Early Twentieth-Century Literature

By: Sarah Davison

Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, the mode engendered revolutionary self-reflexive, critical, and creative practices that were crucial to the development of truly modern art. This book contends that the jauntiness, verve, and daring of high modernism is fundamentally parodic. It arguesthat parody is central to the whole modernist project. As a literary technique, parody provided the means for modernists of many stripes to learn their craft, sharpen their historical sense, definethemselves as post-Victorians, and respond to sources of inspiration while composing.

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Oxford University Press

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0192849247

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9780192849243

Providence and the Invention of American History

By: Sarah Koenig

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Providence and the Invention of American History

By: Sarah Koenig

How providential history--the conviction that God is an active agent in human history--has shaped the American historical imagination In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman was killed after a disastrous eleven-year effort to evangelize the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. By 1897, Whitman was a national hero, celebrated in textbooks, monuments, and historical scholarship as the "Savior of Oregon." But his fame was based on a tall tale--one that was about to be exposed. Sarah Koenig traces the rise and fall of Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman's legend, revealing two patterns in the development of American history. On the one hand is providential history, marked by the conviction that God is an active agent in human history and that historical work can reveal patterns of divine will. On the other hand is objective history, which arose from the efforts of Catholics and other racial and religious outsiders to resist providentialists' pejorative descriptions of non-Protestants and nonwhites. Koenig examines how these competing visions continue to shape understandings of the American past and the nature of historical truth.

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293

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Yale University Press

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0300251009

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9780300251005

Left of Poetry

Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics

By: Sarah Ehlers

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Left of Poetry

Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics

By: Sarah Ehlers

In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagines the historical formation of modern poetics. Offering new and challenging readings of prominent figures such as Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and Jacques Roumain, and uncovering the contributions of lesser-known writers such as Genevieve Taggard and Martha Millet, Ehlers illuminates an aesthetically and geographically diverse matrix of schools and movements. Resisting the dismissal of thirties left writing as mere propaganda, the book reveals how communist-affiliated poets experimented with poetic modes—such as lyric and documentary—and genres, including songs, ballads, and nursery rhymes, in ways that challenged existing frameworks for understanding the relationships among poetic form, political commitment, and historical transformation. As Ehlers shows, Depression left movements and their international connections are crucial for understanding both the history of modern poetry and the role of poetic thought in conceptualizing historical change.

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309

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UNC Press Books

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1469651297

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9781469651293

Capital Speculations

Writing and Building Washington, D.C.

By: Sarah Luria

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Capital Speculations

Writing and Building Washington, D.C.

By: Sarah Luria

An imaginative analysis of the interplay between rhetoric and physical space in the creation of the nation's capital.

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250

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UPNE

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158465502X

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9781584655022

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

By: Sarah E. Chinn

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Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

By: Sarah E. Chinn

The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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267

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Cambridge University Press

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1009442694

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9781009442695

Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

By: Sarah Green

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Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

By: Sarah Green

Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Reading Decadent texts alongside Victorian writing about sexual health, including medical literature, adverts, advice books, and periodical articles, it identifies an intellectual Paterian tradition of sensuous continence, in which 'healthy' pleasure is distinguished from its 'harmful' counterpart. Recent work on Decadent sexuality concentrates on transgression and subversion, with restraint interpreted ahistorically as evidence of repression/sublimation or queer coding. Here Sarah Green examines the work of Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore to outline a co-extensive alternative approach to sexuality where restraint figured as a productive part of the 'aesthetic life', or a practical ethics shaped by aesthetic principles. Attending to this tradition reveals neglected connections within and beyond Decadence, bringing fresh perspective to its late nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108918123

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9781108918121

Nationalism and Literature

The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States

By: Sarah M. Corse

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Nationalism and Literature

The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States

By: Sarah M. Corse

Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.

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236

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Cambridge University Press

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0521579120

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9780521579124

Break Every Bond

Sarah Helen Whitman in Providence: Literary Essays and Selected Poems

By: Sarah Helen Whitman

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Break Every Bond

Sarah Helen Whitman in Providence: Literary Essays and Selected Poems

By: Sarah Helen Whitman

Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878), poet and critic, is best known for her brief engagement to Edgar Allan Poe in 1848, and for her role as Poe's posthumous defender in her 1860 book, Edgar Poe and His Critics. She is seldom treated as more than an incidental person in Poe biography, and no books of her own poetry were reprinted after 1916. As critic, she was a ground-breaking American defender of Poe, Shelley, Byron, Goethe, Alcott, and Emerson, yet none of her literary essays other than her defense of Poe have ever appeared in book form. She and her friend Margaret Fuller are credited with being the first American women literary critics.This volume presents Whitman's literary essays with more than 500 annotations and notes, tracing her literary sources and allusions, and revealing the remarkable breadth of her readings in literature, philosophy, history, and science. Brett Rutherford's biographical essay is rich in revelations about Whitman's time and place, her family history, and her muted career as poet, essayist, and den mother to artists and writers. Exploding the standard view of her as the secluded "literary widow," we can now perceive her as a literary radical pushing against a conservative milieu; a suffragist and abolitionist who dabbled in séances; and a devotee of the New England Transcendentalists and the German Idealists who inspired them.The complete text of Edgar Poe and His Critics presented here, includes the opposing texts by Rufus Griswold, whose libels provoked her landmark defense of Poe's writing and character. This annotated version identifies all the contemporary press reviews and books Whitman read and critiqued, making it indispensible for students of Edgar Allan Poe.The selected poems in this volume include the hyper-Romantic traversal of rival mythologies in "Hours of Life," her most ambitious work; her poems to and about Edgar Allan Poe; sensitive and atmospheric nature portrayals; a defense of the then-reviled art of the drama; a love poem from Proserpine to Pluto; an occasional poem about Rhode Island penned in the after-shadow of the Dorr Rebellion; and translations from French and German poets, most notably the most famous of all European ghost ballads, Bürger's "Leonora." Whitman's allusions and unattributed quotations from other poets are all annotated, making this book a must for scholars and students.

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302

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Yogh & Thorn Press

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0922558000

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9780922558001

The First American Women Architects

By: Sarah Allaback

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The First American Women Architects

By: Sarah Allaback

An invaluable reference covering the history of women architects

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University of Illinois Press

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0252033213

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9780252033216

Book's by Sarah Whitman

Modernist Parody

Modernist Parody

Providence and the Invention of American History

Providence and the Invention of American History

Left of Poetry

Left of Poetry

Capital Speculations

Capital Speculations

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

Nationalism and Literature

Nationalism and Literature

Break Every Bond

Break Every Bond

The First American Women Architects

The First American Women Architects

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