The complicity of imagination : the American renaissance, contests of authority, and seventeenth-century English culture /

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Author / Creator:	Grey, Robin (Robin Sandra)
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 294 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 106 Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 106.
Subject:	Fuller, Margaret, -- 1810-1850 -- Knowledge -- England. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Knowledge -- England. Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Knowledge -- England. Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- England. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882. Fuller, Margaret, -- 1810-1850. Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891. Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862. American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. English literature -- Appreciation -- United States. American literature -- English influences. American literature. American literature -- English influences. Civilization. English literature -- Appreciation. England -- Civilization -- 17th century. England. United States. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113231

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ISBN:	0511003730 9780511003738 9780521495387 0521495385 0521495385 0511887949 9780511887949 0511585462 9780511585463
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-280) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship between four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England. Challenging the notion that antebellum Americans were burdened by a sense of cultural inferiority in both their thought and their writing, this study portrays an American Renaissance whose writers were familiar enough with the literature and controversies of seventeenth-century England to appropriate its cultural artifacts for their own purposes. American writers such as Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, and Melville consciously absorbed literary, philosophical, and political strategies from their reading in the earlier period in order to interrogate the orthodoxies of American Whigs, as well as the agenda of the radical Democratic 'Young Americans.' By exploring the broader cultural implications of intertextual relationships, this book demonstrates how literary texts participate in the artistic, political, and theological tensions within American culture.
Other form:	Print version: Grey, Robin (Robin Sandra). Complicity of imagination. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521495385

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