The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
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| Title: | The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art |
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| Description: | The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.” Contributors from literary studies, book history, and visual culture discuss a host of canonical and non-canonical figures, from Edward Taylor and Washington Irving to Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Kemble Knight, offering insight into the many intellectual, ideological, and material variations of “form” that populated the early American cultural landscape. As these essays reveal, the casting of the fragmentary as aesthetically eccentric or incomplete was a way of reckoning with concerns about the related fragmentation of nation, society, and self. For a contemporary audience, they offer new ways to think about the inevitable gaps and absences in our cultural and historical archive. |
| Authors: | Matthew Pethers, Daniel Diez Couch |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Art and society--United States--History--18th century, Books and reading--United States--History--18th century, American prose literature--History and criticism |
| Categories: | ART / General, ART / American / General, ART / Movements / Romanticism, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.” Contributors from literary studies, book history, and visual culture discuss a host of canonical and non-canonical figures, from Edward Taylor and Washington Irving to Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Kemble Knight, offering insight into the many intellectual, ideological, and material variations of “form” that populated the early American cultural landscape. As these essays reveal, the casting of the fragmentary as aesthetically eccentric or incomplete was a way of reckoning with concerns about the related fragmentation of nation, society, and self. For a contemporary audience, they offer new ways to think about the inevitable gaps and absences in our cultural and historical archive. |
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| ISBN: | 9781684485079 9781684485086 9781684485093 9781684485109 |
