Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

New Materialist Representations

Autori

• Jillmarie Murphy

Parametri

• 158 pagine
• 6 ore di lettura

• Arte / Cultura
• Letteratura regionale e d'esilio
• Storia
• Storia del mondo
• Sulla letteratura

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Interpersonal and place attachments are crucial in shaping national identity within American literature, as explored through ecocritical and psychoanalytic lenses. The study delves into the interplay of empirical science and the physical environment, examining non-human agency alongside human experiences. It highlights how early republic writers redefined modernity by altering representations of attachments, while 19th-century authors reimagined these connections, leading to a reconfiguration of views on Otherness and a critique of outdated concepts of difference.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2018

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