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The American Renaissance Reconsidered
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The American Renaissance Reconsidered Paperback - 1989

by Walter B. Michaels (Editor); Donald E. Pease (Editor)

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  • Title The American Renaissance Reconsidered
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
  • Date 1989-09-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11726804-6
  • ISBN 9780801839375 / 0801839378
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.33 x 0.64 in (20.24 x 13.54 x 1.63 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84047940
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.9

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From the publisher

The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary "classics" appeared-works "original" enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular history so much as it denotes a rebirth from it: "Independent of the time kept by secular history, the American Renaissance keeps what we could call global Renaissance time-the sacred time a nation claims to renew, when it claims its cultural place as a great nation existing within a world of great nations. Providing each nation with the terms for cultural greatness denied to secular history, the renaissance' is not an occasion occurring within any specific historical time or place so much as it is a moment of cultural achievement that repeatedly demands to be reborn." The American Renaissance Reconsidered examines this demand for rebirth in terms other than those ordained by the American Renaissance itself. In the seven pieces collected here it is reborn, not outside of, but within America's secular history, as the authors examine anew the period of the American Renaissance-and the period in which its history was written. Contributing authors are Eric J. Sundquist, Jane P. Tompkins, Louis A. Renza, Jonathan Arac, Donald E. Pease, Walter Benn Michaels, and Allen Grossman.

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On the first anniversary of the Liberator in 1832 William Lloyd Garrison invoked the "Spirit of Liberty" that was "thundering at castle-gates and prison-doors" throughout the world.

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The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary 'classics' appeared--works 'original' enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history.

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About the author

Walter Benn Michaels is professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. Donald E. Pease is associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.

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