Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521830645)

Robert Abrams argues that new concepts of space and landscape emerged in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, marking a linguistic and interpretative limit to American expansion. Abrams supports the radical elements of antebellum writing, where writers from Hawthorne to Rebecca Harding Davis disputed the naturalizing discourses of mid-nineteenth century society. Whereas previous critics find in antebellum writing a desire to convert chaos into an affirmative, liberal agenda, Abrams contends that authors of the 1840s and 50s deconstructed more than they constructed.

Author: Robert E. Abrams
ISBN-10: 0521830648
ISBN-13: 9780521830645
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2003
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.54w x 0.58d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2004 pg. 98