Messing with Romance : American Poetics and Antebellum Southern Fiction

Name: Messing with Romance
Brand: Peter Lang AG
SKU: 9783631632451
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by Zeno Ackermann

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Format Hardback

Book Series Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Regensburg Studies in British and American Languages and Cultures

ISBN-10 3631632452

ISBN-13 9783631632451

Edition New

Publisher Peter Lang AG

Imprint Peter Lang AG

Country of Manufacture DE

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 29th, 2012

Print length 229 Pages

Weight 424 grams

Dimensions 21.90 x 15.40 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: United Kingdom, Great Britain Canada American English Romanticism Realism Language teaching theory and methods Literary theory Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ELT background & reference material History Cultural studies Cultural studies History

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Traces a development from pretences of realism to bold fantasies of fiction's socially transformative power, and eventually toward the collapse of the discourse of romance to which southern novelists had contributed with such desperate determination.

Messing with Romance is a reinvestigation of southern literary history and a case study in the potentials of genre criticism. Offering contextualized readings of novels produced by representatives of the southern elite between 1824 and 1854, the study traces a development that is as fascinating as it is contradictory: from pretences of «realism» to bold fantasies of fiction’s socially transformative power, and eventually toward the collapse of the discourse of «romance» to which southern novelists had contributed with such desperate determination. Along the way, prominent critical clichés come under scrutiny: firstly, that antebellum southern literature followed a clear-cut course of radicalization; secondly, that literary conventions can easily be identified as the determining formats of ideological discourses.

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