Buell, Lawrence. creator text bibliography enk Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 1986 monographic eng

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xii, 513 p. : 23 cm. Machine derived contents note: Part I. Four Overviews: 1. Theoretical premises -- 2. A narrative overview of New England's literary development -- 3. Marketplace, ethos, practice: the Antebellum literary situation -- 4. Neoclassical continuities: the early national era and the New England literary tradition -- Part II. Three Representative Genres: 5. New England Poetics: Emerson, Dickinson, and others -- 6. New England oratory from Everett to Emerson -- 7. Literary scripturism -- Part III. Reinventing Puritanism: the New England Historical Imagination: 8. The concept of puritan ancestry -- 9. The politics of historiography -- 10. Fictionalizing puritan history: some problems and approaches -- 11. Hawthorne and Stowe as rival interpreters of New England Puritanism -- Part IV. New England as a Country of the Imagination: The Spirit of Place: 12. The cultural landscape in regional poetry and prose -- 13. The village as icon -- 14. Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau -- 15. Comic grotesque -- 16. Provincial Gothic: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and others -- Postscript -- Appendix. Vital statistics: a quantitative analysis of authorship as a profession in New England. Lawrence Buell. Includes bibliographical reference and index. n-usn-- American literature New England History and criticism Authors, American Homes and haunts New England Puritan movements in literature Puritans New England New England In literature New England Civilization English literature New England writers, 1830-1861 - Critical studies 810 BUE 0521302064 85014893 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/85014893.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/85014893.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/85014893.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/85014893.html DLC 850606 20170423150906.0 126373 eng