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Exceptional violence and the crisis of classic American literature

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exceptional violence and the crisis of classic American literatureby Joseph Fichtelberg.
Author:	Fichtelberg, Joseph.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xi, 261 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Violence in literature.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07845-3
ISBN:	9783031078453$q(electronic bk.)

Exceptional violence and the crisis of classic American literature
Fichtelberg, Joseph.

Exceptional violence and the crisis of classic American literature[electronic resource] /by Joseph Fichtelberg. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xi, 261 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - American literature readings in the 21st century,2634-5803. - American literature readings in the 21st century..

1 Introduction -- 2 States of Exception -- 3 Empty Places -- 4 Poe's Chess Game -- 5 The Sublime Object of Freedom -- 6 Claiming Benito Cereno -- 7 Emily Dickinson's Picturesque War.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil War, the book presents two forms of governance: local and regional control, and national governance. The period's states of exception arose from these clashing imperatives, creating contests over land, finance, and, above all, slavery, that drove national politics. Extensively employing the political and cultural insights of Walter Benjamin, this book surveys antebellum American writers to understand how they situated themselves and their work in relation to these episodes, specifically focusing on the experience of violence. Exploring the work of Edgar Allan Poe, ex-slave narrators like Moses Roper and Henry Bibb, Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, the book applies some central aspects of Walter Benjamin's literary and cultural criticism to the deep investment in pain in antebellum politics and culture. Joseph Fichtelberg is Professor of English at Hofstra University, USA. He is the author of three books: The Complex Image: Faith and Method in American Autobiography (1989), Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780-1870 (2003), and Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America (2010)

ISBN: 9783031078453$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-07845-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

222201
Violence in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN56.V53

Dewey Class. No.: 809.933552

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