“Where Genius dies” : The Debate over “Literary Deliquency” in the Early United States
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Silesian Studies In English 2021. Proceedings of the 6th international conference of English and American studies, 9th-10th September 2021 |
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| Web | SILSE Proceedings |
| Keywords | American literature; nineteenth century; literary nationalism; Transcendentalism |
| Description | For nearly a century, from the Revolution until after the Civil War, both foreign critics and anxious American men and women of letters debated the question of when and how America would establish a national literature of its own. This essay examines that debate and its various sub-questions, noting its key figures and arguments and its connections with larger issues of textual authority, national “genius,” and the cultural implications of American democracy. |
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