Popular American Literature of the 19th Century. Paul C. Gutjahr

2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-258
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
The 19Th Century

scholarly journals Bazaar, merchandise and decadence: Antonio José Ponte and Julián del Casal

Anclajes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Rocío Fernández ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Julian Del Casal ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The 19Th Century

The fascination of Latin American modernism for 19th century French fashion merchandise has been widely addressed in literary theory. Texts filled with diverse cultural materials, textures and objects configured a poetics of the bazaar that became part of a series of strategies through which Latin American literature defined and linked itself to hegemonic aesthetics of the 19th century. The poems and chronicles of Cuban writer Julián del Casal (1863-1893) are no exception; this proliferation of merchandise reveals how the gaze and the images become configured as empty fictions, filled by a cosmopolitan desire. This feature, tied to the function and configuration of images in Cuban modernism, makes possible an anachronical reading of the presence of State merchandise at the other end of the century: Antonio José Ponte’s decadent reality in post-Soviet Cuba.

scholarly journals ON THE PECULIARITIES OF CHRONOTOPE IN NEW ENGLAND GOTHIC: THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE BY SHIRLEY HARDIE JACKSON

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
El’mira V. Vasil’yeva
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Temporal Isolation ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Parallel Development ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article deals with Mikhail Bakhtin’s term «the chronotope of the castle» analysed on the material of two New England Gothic novels – «The House of the Seven Gables» by Nathaniel Hawthorne and «The Haunting of Hill House» by Shirley Hardie Jackson. The author assumes that chronotope is not just a spacetime characteristic, but a set of motifs – the motive of dark past, the motif of spatial and temporal isolation, and the motif of «sentient» house. All of these motifs were used by classic Gothic novel writers of the 1760s to 1830s, and were as well employed in later quasi-Gothic texts. At the turn of the 19th century, Gothic novel commenced its parallel development in American literature, where it subsequently became one of the national genres. American writers aspired to adapt Gothic poetics to the cultural context of the country. For instance, in New England Gothic fi ction, the chronotope of the castle was transformed into the chronotope of the «bad» house. However, the set of motifs has remained the same: both Hawthorne and Jackson consistently used the motifs, provided by British Gothic fi ction, yet they further explored them and came up with their own interpretations.

Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Grant
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Penny Press ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
19Th Century American Literature ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Random Reflections

Though political scientists and historians of the 19th-century United States have always turned to newspapers as an important source, there has in recent years been a growing interest in newspapers as a distinct object of study among historians, communications scholars, and literary critics. Newspapers were not only publishers and promoters of important literature but also central to the culture of literary production and consumption. All the scholarship, by various disciplines, produced on newspapers is relevant to the ongoing project to historicize, interpret, contextualize, and theorize 19th-century American literature in all its varied relations to its readership and to the nation generally. Though circulation grew rapidly over the century, the reach of newspapers was not limited to official subscription lists or, later, to street sales. As both scholars and contemporary observers have noted, various mechanisms—formal exchanges between newspapers hundreds of miles apart, reading rooms, coffee houses, and the general cultural practice of reusing and sharing newspapers—meant that the readership for newspapers extended beyond their paying subscribers throughout the century, but especially in the antebellum years. Although in some senses newspapers may in the 19th century have ceded to magazines their 18th-century function of presenting a miscellany of material, for all practical purposes throughout the 19th century many newspapers, most often only four pages long, continued to play that role—they included poems, reviews, serialized novels, orations and lectures, cultural laments, letters from abroad, and reports on scientific discoveries along with the more expected news, random reflections or anecdotes, and editorial opinion. Through most of the century, however, the majority of newspapers devoted at least a quarter of their space to advertising. In the first third of the 19th century, party organs and commercial papers for the mercantile class grew to the point where they came to be seen as representing the two primary functions of the American newspaper. From the 1830s to the Civil War, various developments, including the penny press, the reform press, the religious press, and the African-American press, changed the character of newspapers, even though their party functions remained uppermost. After the war, urban newspapers gradually grew in length and in the range of their coverage. Commercialization and the first steps toward professionalization began to change the mission of journalism, so that by the 1890s many urban papers more closely resembled newspapers of the next fifty years than they did newspapers of the previous generation.

Currents in Dominican American Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Kang ◽  
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Civic Belonging ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Dominican American

Dominican American literature comprises the body of creative writing in various genres by US-based authors of Dominican ancestry. Here, “Dominican” refers to people who trace their origins by birth or descent to the Dominican Republic, not to the island of Dominica in the Anglophone West Indies. “Dominican American,” in turn, applies to writers born, raised, and/or socialized in the United States, who received their schooling in general and, in particular, their literary education in this country irrespective of the extent of their involvement in the life of their ancestral homeland. Writing by Dominicans in the United States has a long history. Its existence reaches back at least to the first half of the 19th century, shining forth meaningfully in the 1990s, and showing little sign of abatement in the early decades of the 21st century. While this article concerns itself primarily with Dominican American writing, it seeks to answer predictable questions regarding the rapport of this corpus with the literary production of Dominican Republic-based writers and Dominican authors who have settled in the United States largely as immigrants, using Spanish as their literary language. The article distinguishes Dominican American literature from the writings of people who, beginning in the 19th century, came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as travelers, adventurers, and individual settlers, having left home for political or economic reasons. They could be exiles escaping danger or immigrants seduced by the possibility of enhancing their lives in the proverbial “land of milk and honey.” They tended to regard their time in the United States as temporary and yearned for the change of fortune—political or economic—that would bring them back home. However, having had their return either thwarted or delayed, they would often build families or raise any offspring that came with them to the receiving society. Their children, US-born or brought to the land while young enough to be socialized as US citizens, became Dominican American by default. US-born children of foreign parents who have pursued writing as a vocation have been able to vie for recognition in the American literary mainstream. English speakers by virtue of their US upbringing, they would have their ears attuned to the rhythms of US literature writ large. Dominican American writers in the 21st century have shown their mettle, making themselves heard in the ethnically partitioned map of the country’s letters. As with other Caribbean-descended American writers, they typically inhabit their US citizenship with an awareness of the contested nature of their civic belonging. Family legacies, personal memories, and their own process of self-discovery keep them reminded of the effects of US foreign policy on the land of their forbears. As a result, their texts tend to reflect not only an ethnic American voice, but also a diasporic perspective.

The Drama of Colonialism: National Identity and the Construction of theIndian/Otherin Early-19th-Century American Plays

Prospects ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Zoe Detsi-Diamanti
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century

This essay offers insights into the American nation's persistent denial and deep-seated fears of its own inextricably multicultural identity at the time of the American Revolution and the first half of the 19th century. American imperialism, and perhaps this is true of all imperialisms, was founded upon a stable hierarchical relationship between “civilized” and “savage.” Rhetorically, indigenous tribespeople seem to have fitted Frantz Fanon's description of “the realotherwhom the white man perceived on the level of the body image, absolutely as the non-self – that is, the unidentifiable, the unassimilable” (161 n.). On the one hand, the imperialistic drive across the continent in the name of Manifest Destiny, and, on the other, the nation's wishful thinking to constrict the boundaries ofAmerican identityinto a fixed, pure and homogeneous body of values, unleashed the forces of cultural exclusion. In this essay, I try to show how the dominant white society's narcissistic view of itself as an empire operating under the auspices of Divine Providence actually resulted in a series of political acts of nativist violence. I have deliberately chosen to focus on the dramatic literature of the 19th century as a still largely unexplored territory of American literature in order to trace and expose the contradictory representations of the Native American as both historically absent and integral to the nation's conception of its own identity as the “center.”The palefaces are all around us, and they tread in blood. The blaze of our burning wigwams flashes awfully in the darkness of their path. We are destroyed — not vanquished; we are no more, yet we are forever.

“With Scalpel and Microscope in Hand”: The Influence of Professor Lucius Sherman's 19th-Century Literary Pedagogy on Willa Cather's Developing Aesthetic

Prospects ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 289-324
Author(s):  
Evelyn I. Funda
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Willa Cather ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Literary Pedagogy

Today few, if any, scholars of American literature have heard of University of Nebraska English Professor Lucius Adelno Sherman (Figure 1), and if they know of him at all, it is likely through his antagonistic association with a young Willa Cather, who had been his student in Nebraska in the 1890s (more on that relationship in the latter part of this essay). During that last decade of the 19th century, however, this Yaleeducated professor was becoming well known in his own right as a soughtafter educator and literary critic who, during his more than fifty-year career, wrote seven books on the study of literature and education and edited several others.

scholarly journals ΟΙ ΠΡΟΤΕΣΤΑΝΤΙΚΕΣ ΙΔΕΕΣ, Ο MARK TWAIN ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΠΡΟΤΥΠΟ TOΥ ΠΑΙΔΙΚΟΥ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΑ ΣΤΟ ΜΙΣΣΙΟΝΑΡΙΚΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ (19ΟΣ ΑΙ.)

Μνήμων ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
ΠΟΛΛΗ ΘΑΝΑΗΛΑΚΗ
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
American Author ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

<p>Polly Thanailaki, The protestant ideas, Mark Twain and the model of the child's character in the missionary books in Greece in the 19th century</p><p>This essay explores the historical evolution which was observed in the shaping of the child's model of character in the American literature books of the 19th century within the frame of the protestant ideas and values. It also studies the impact of this development in the missionary books for children in Greece in the same century. We particularly focus on Mark Twain's revolutionary presence in the American children's literature by, firstly, placing emphasis on the change that the great American author made to the strict puritan model with the shaping of a more liberal and «innocent» children's character and, secondly, by analyzing the response which Twain's books met from the Greek 19th century readers. In this paper we argue that Twain's writing, known for realism, biting social satire and memorable children's characters, influenced the Greek children's literature in the end of the 19th century. The translations of his works started taking the lead in the end of this century in Greece. Moreover, this essay studies the re-shaping of the child's character in the missionary books published in Greece in the mid 19th century. The missionaries also followed the new trend for the children's character. The missionary stories appeared less didactic and strict.</p>

scholarly journals The novella "The Falling in Love of Fedora" by Kate Chopin in the context of "New Woman" discussions in the late 19th century

2019 ◽  
pp. 106-108
Author(s):  
Tat'yana N. Shmelyova
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Original Interpretation ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article deals with the original interpretation of such extremely polemical concept for the 19th century cultural life as "new woman" in Kate Chopin’s novella. Gender problem is considered in social and literary epoch context. Stereotypic features inherent to the "new woman" image in that time's literature are mentioned. The short story's analysis reveals peculiar author’s attitude towards new social and cultural phenomenon. Kate Chopin’s viewpoint is ambivalent. More frank rending of women’s sexuality than it was accepted in American literature of that time disaccorded with Victorian idea about woman; ironic description of main character’s progressive opinion underlines their life bankruptcy. This ambivalence highlights complexity and ambiguity of women’s question and the peculiarity of that period which was transitional in the question considered.

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