基本説明
Examines self-representation in US culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century.
Full Description
Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, this book focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae, and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities. Special emphasis is given to Walt Whitman, but other figures are treated at length: P. T. Barnum, Edward Carpenter, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe. This study contributes to the understanding of selfhood in nineteenth-century American culture, the development of autobiography as a genre, and the dynamics of literary reception.
Contents
1. Revised Lives: Self-Refashioning and Nineteenth-Century American Autobiography 2. Politics, Poetics, and Self-Promotion: Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln 3. "He Not Only Objected to My Book, He Objected to Me": Walt Whitman, James Russell Lowell, and the Rhetoric of Exclusion 4. "What Is a Man Anyhow?": Whitmanites, Wildeans, and Working-Class Comradeship 5. Visual Images and the Nineteenth-Century Construction of Edgar Allan Poe
