The Complicity of Imagination by Robin Grey
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 1997 study portrays an American Renaissance whose writers were deeply enough read in the literature and controversies of seventeenth-century England to appropriate its cultural artifacts for their own purposes. 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.-
Salem Story
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Fictions of Capital
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Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Reimagining Thoreau
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Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
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Worlds of Hurt
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A Grand Army of Black Men
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Pocahontas
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T. S. Eliot and Ideology
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Wallace Stevens
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Tragedy, Affect and Labor in American Literature, 1945–2020
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Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men
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Complicity and the Antebellum Moral Imagination
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The Harlem Renaissance Weekly
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American Narrative Realism
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The Psychopath and the Twentieth-Century American Novel
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Energy and Economy in American Literature
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American Literature and Immediacy
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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature
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Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908–1934
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Cross-Cultural Reckonings
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A Natural History of Pragmatism
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Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation
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The Logic of Slavery
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures
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Henry James' Last Romance
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Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature
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Multilingual America
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Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms
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Failure and the American Writer
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The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
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Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature
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Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
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Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature
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Time, Tense, and American Literature
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A House Undivided
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Voices of Persuasion
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Conspiracy and Romance
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In Respect to Egotism
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Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
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Covenant and Republic
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Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860–1930
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Discrepant Engagement
"The Complicity of Imagination provides some excellent insights into certain aspects of the American Renaissance's reception of seventeenth-century English Literature...it will prove worth the while of all those interested in the sources from which antebellum New England drew its inspiration." K.P. Van Anglen, The New England Quarterly
"The Complicity of Imagination should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the seventeenth-century allusiveness built into the works of Emerson, FUller, Thoreau, and Melville." Matthew A. Fike, College Literature
"The Complicity of Imagination is a refreshing look at one of the sources of the American Renaissance: seventeenth-century English literature...well-documented and thought out. This is an informed, original, and very useful study that not only places the four authors solidly within the larger English literary tradition, but also allows us to understand their literary art better than we did before." Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"...thoroughly researched, well written, and genuinely compelling...This fascinating study is highly reccomended." Christianity and Literature
"The Complicity of Imagination should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the seventeenth-century allusiveness built into the works of Emerson, FUller, Thoreau, and Melville." Matthew A. Fike, College Literature
"The Complicity of Imagination is a refreshing look at one of the sources of the American Renaissance: seventeenth-century English literature...well-documented and thought out. This is an informed, original, and very useful study that not only places the four authors solidly within the larger English literary tradition, but also allows us to understand their literary art better than we did before." Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"...thoroughly researched, well written, and genuinely compelling...This fascinating study is highly reccomended." Christianity and Literature
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521495387 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521495385 |
| Title | The Complicity of Imagination |
| Author | Robin Grey |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In American Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1997-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 310 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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