Claudia Stokes

Gebundenes Buch

Old Style

Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature

Beschreibung

"We celebrate innovation and experimentation, but Old Style reminds us that nineteenth-century American writers instead valued familiarity and traditionalism, which provided reliable markers of literary quality. Old Style examines the varied uses and expressions of unoriginality, which helped credential marginalized writers but which would eventually become associated with elitist conservatism"--

Autor

Claudia Stokes is Professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910 and The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion, the latter also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253535
• ISBN-10: 0812253531
• Artikelnr.: 61115958