Novel Nostalgias

The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth Century U.S. Literature

Autor: John Funchion

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Ohio State University Press

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Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature establishes how...

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Autor

John Funchion

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2015

Stránek

266

EAN

9780814252178

ISBN

9780814252178

Enbook ID

01030787

Vydavatel

Ohio State University Press

Hmotnost

410

Rozměry

229 x 112 x 22

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Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature establishes how the longing to recover a lost home or past drove some of the central conflicts of the nineteenth-century United States. Providing one of the few U.S. literary histories that examines cultural material from both before and after the Civil War, John Funchion argues that a diverse array of novels, from William Wells Brown's Clotel to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, imagined new politically--and antagonistically--charged communities through forms of nostalgic longing. In contrast with studies that characterized the nineteenth-century U.S. novel as a consensus-generating form complicit with disciplinary culture, Funchion shows how novels shaped a series of culture wars by advancing antagonistic nostalgias. Southern slave owners and their slaves or industrial magnates and their union opponents alike enlisted the power of nostalgia to validate their rival visions of the nation as lost moments awaiting recovery. Antagonistic nostalgias legitimated the political claims of movements as diverse as abolitionism, sectionalism, populism, socialism, anarchism, and cosmopolitanism. Novel Nostalgias provides a deep cultural historical understanding of the nineteenth-century United States, but ultimately, it also allows for a better understanding of how twenty-first-century movements function. John Funchion is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Miami.

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