The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Phoenix Books) - Softcover

Lewis, R. W. B. W. B.

 
9780226476810: The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Phoenix Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226476812 ISBN 13: 9780226476810
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1959

Inhaltsangabe

Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

R. W. B. Lewis is professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1959
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226476812
ISBN 13 
9780226476810
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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