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Buell, Lawrence.

New England literary culture from revolution through renaissance / Lawrence Buell.

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

xii, 513 pages ; 24 cm.

Tracing New England's literary emergence through the early national and antebellum periods, author Lawrence Buell combines intensive study of texts by such major figures as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Dickinson with analyses of works by a great range of other New England writers. The result is a new and deeper look at the rise of American literary professionalism, the meaning and significance of Neoclassicism and Romanticism in America, and the conventions and ideology of some of the period's most distinctive genres. ISBN 0-521-30206-4: $34.50.

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [15]

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 15.

American literature -- New England -- History and criticism.

Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New England.

Puritan movements in literature.

Puritans -- New England.

New England -- Intellectual life.

New England -- In literature.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-497) and index.

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 -- 5. New England poetics : Emerson, Dickinson, and others -- 6. New England oratory from Everett to Emerson -- 7. Literary scripturism -- 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 -- 12. The cultural landscape in regional poetry and prose -- 13. The village as icon -- 14. Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau -- 15. Cosmic grotesque -- 16. Provincial Gothic : Hawthorne, Stoddard, and others -- Appendix. Vital statistics : a quantitative analysis of authorship as a profession in New England.

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