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- catalog abstract "A study of prominent 19th century American writers shows how they assimilated themes and images from popular culture into their art, particulary sensationalistic literature that addressed controversial themes such as religion, slavery, sexual mores, and workers' and women's rights.".
- catalog alternative "Subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and Melville.".
- catalog contributor b1961408.
- catalog created "1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1988.".
- catalog description "A study of prominent 19th century American writers shows how they assimilated themes and images from popular culture into their art, particulary sensationalistic literature that addressed controversial themes such as religion, slavery, sexual mores, and workers' and women's rights.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 569-604.".
- catalog description "Introduction : The open text: American writers and their environment -- pt. 1 : God's bow, man's arrows: religion, reform, and American literature : The new religious style -- The reform impulse and the paradox of immoral didacticism -- The transcendentalists, Whitman, and popular reform -- Hawthorne and the reform impulse -- Melville's whited sepulchres.".
- catalog description "pt. 2 : Public poison: sensationalism and sexuality : The sensational press and the rise of subversive literature -- The erotic imagination -- Poe and popular irrationalism -- Hawthorne's cultural demons -- Melville's ruthless democracy -- Whitman's transfigured sensationalism.".
- catalog description "pt. 3 : Other Amazons: women's rights, women's wrongs, and the literary imagination : Types of American womanhood -- Hawthorne's heroines -- The American women's renaissance and Emily Dickinson.".
- catalog description "pt. 4 : The grotesque posture: popular humor and the American subversive style : The carnivalization of American language -- Transcendental wild oats -- Whitman's poetic humor -- Stylized laughter in Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville -- Epilogue : Reconstructive criticism: literary theory and literary history.".
- catalog extent "x, 625 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Beneath the American Renaissance.".
- catalog identifier "039454448X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Beneath the American Renaissance.".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Beneath the American Renaissance.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810/.9/003 19".
- catalog subject "American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Canon (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Contemporaries.".
- catalog subject "Historical criticism (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Contemporaries.".
- catalog subject "PS208 .R49 1988".
- catalog subject "Popular literature United States History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Radicalism in literature United States.".
- catalog subject "Sensationalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Social norms in literature.".
- catalog subject "Social problems in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : The open text: American writers and their environment -- pt. 1 : God's bow, man's arrows: religion, reform, and American literature : The new religious style -- The reform impulse and the paradox of immoral didacticism -- The transcendentalists, Whitman, and popular reform -- Hawthorne and the reform impulse -- Melville's whited sepulchres.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 2 : Public poison: sensationalism and sexuality : The sensational press and the rise of subversive literature -- The erotic imagination -- Poe and popular irrationalism -- Hawthorne's cultural demons -- Melville's ruthless democracy -- Whitman's transfigured sensationalism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 3 : Other Amazons: women's rights, women's wrongs, and the literary imagination : Types of American womanhood -- Hawthorne's heroines -- The American women's renaissance and Emily Dickinson.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 4 : The grotesque posture: popular humor and the American subversive style : The carnivalization of American language -- Transcendental wild oats -- Whitman's poetic humor -- Stylized laughter in Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville -- Epilogue : Reconstructive criticism: literary theory and literary history.".
- catalog title "Beneath the American Renaissance : the subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and Melville / David S. Reynolds.".
- catalog title "Subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and Melville.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".