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Authorship and Audience
Stephen Railton
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing artist and the text as an enactment of the drama of its own performance. Railton focuses on how major prose works of the period are preoccupied with their readers--how they seek to negotiate the conflicted space between the authors, who brought to the act of publication their own anxieties of ambition and identity, and the contemporary American reading public, which, as a growing mass audience in a democracy, had acquired an unprecedented authority over the terms of literary performance. New readings of Emerson's orations, Poe's tales, the sketches of the Southwest Humorists, Walden, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Scarlet Letter, and Moby-Dick relocate American writers in the dramatic context in which they suffered and thrived. The book attends closely to historicist issues, arguing that one of the most profound ways that the culture shaped these texts was also the most immediate--as the audience each writer had to address. Equally concerned with biographical themes, it appreciates each of the major works within the larger pattern of the writer's public career and private needs.
Originally published in 1991.
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Mark Twain, Redburn, Ridicule, James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Slough of Despond, Edgar Allan Poe, Benito Cereno, Leslie Fiedler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ethan Brand, The Other Hand, Humour, Monomania, Moby-Dick, Eloquence, Good and evil, Self-Reliance, Romanticism, The Heroic Slave, Lecture, Uncle Tom, Essay, Phrenology, Slavery, Melodrama, Antithesis, The Philosophy of Composition, Novelist, The Scarlet Letter, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Career, Ahab, Literature, Narrative, Tragic hero, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Genre, Fiction, Puritans, Novel, Criticism, Young Goodman Brown, The Confidence-Man, Mardi, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, Jeremiad, Prose, Typee, Dystopia, His Family, Overreaction, Writer, Huckleberry Finn, Superiority (short story), Reader-response criticism, Gilded Age, Mock-heroic, Anxiety of influence, Suspension of disbelief, Warfare, Aphorism, Poetry, Transcendentalism, Genre fiction, Narcissism, Frederick Crews, Negative capability, Writing