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Voelz, Johannes.

The poetics of insecurityAmerican fiction and the uses of threat /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The poetics of insecurityJohannes Voelz.
Reminder of title:	American fiction and the uses of threat /
Author:	Voelz, Johannes.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2018.
Description:	xii, 246 p. :digital ;24 cm.
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).
Subject:	American fictionHistory and criticism.19th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108291408
ISBN:	9781108291408$q(electronic bk.)

The poetics of insecurityAmerican fiction and the uses of threat /
Voelz, Johannes.

The poetics of insecurityAmerican fiction and the uses of threat /[electronic resource] :Johannes Voelz. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2018. - xii, 246 p. :digital ;24 cm. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;147.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

The Poetics of Insecurity turns the emerging field of literary security studies upside down. Rather than tying the prevalence of security to a culture of fear, Johannes Voelz shows how American literary writers of the past two hundred years have mobilized insecurity to open unforeseen and uncharted horizons of possibility for individuals and collectives. In a series of close readings of works by Charles Brockden Brown, Harriet Jacobs, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, and Don DeLillo, Voelz brings to light a cultural imaginary in which conventional meanings of security and insecurity are frequently reversed, so that security begins to appear as deadening and insecurity as enlivening. Timely, broad-ranging, and incisive, Johannes Voelz's study intervenes in debates on American literature as well as in the interdisciplinary field of security studies. It fundamentally challenges our existing explanations for the pervasiveness of security in American cultural and political life.

ISBN: 9781108291408$q(electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

179659
American fiction
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PS377 / .V64 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 813.409

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