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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    29 June 2025
    17 July 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009527699
    9781009527729
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009527699
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 218 Pages
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    • Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    This book recovers an important set of American literary texts from the turn of the nineteenth century to the Civil War that focus on bodies that seem to have minds of their own. Artists such as Charles Brockden Brown, Robert Montgomery Bird, Edwin Forrest, Henry Box Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Herman Melville represented the evocative expressiveness of these literary bodies. With twitches and roars, flushes and blushes, these lively literary bodies shaped the development of American Literature even as they challenged the structures of chattel slavery, market capitalism, and the patriarchy. Situated within its historical context, this new story of nineteenth-century American Literature thus reveals how American literary expression-from novels to melodramas, from panoramas to magic tricks-represented less repressive, more capacious possibilities of conscious existence, and new forms of the human for those dehumanized in the nineteenth century.

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