American Literary History in Pieces

IF 0.6 2区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN
Bryan Sinche
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Daniel Diez Couch’s American Fragments offers a scholarly analysis of the fragment, a mainstay of American print culture in the early national period. In American Fragments, Couch argues that fragments were central to both American aesthetics and American political culture. Insisting that the fragment was an inclusive and progressive form that invited readers to consider the relationship between a part and the whole, Couch shows how fragments helped Americans understand themselves and their place in a democratic republic. Couch’s book is deeply researched, and it provides insightful readings of well-known texts like Hannah Fosters’s The Coquette, Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, and Washington Irving’s Sketch Book while also introducing readers to a host of poems and other shorter writings that appeared in newspapers, periodicals, and gift books throughout the early nineteenth century. The original research in American Fragments is engaging, and it is also emblematic of a new wave of scholarship enabled by the widespread digitization of books and newspapers in that it introduces so many new texts that are difficult to connect to existing timelines and canons. In this respect, Couch’s book also reveals the limitations of the monograph as a tool for revisioning our collective scholarly project.[R]ight now, the scholarship pushing us to reimagine our literary past is running ahead of the forms in which it might be published.
美国文学史碎片
Daniel Diez Couch 的《美国片段》对片段进行了学术分析,片段是美国早期印刷文化的主流。在《美国片段》中,库奇认为片段是美国美学和美国政治文化的核心。库奇坚持认为,片段是一种包容和进步的形式,它邀请读者思考部分与整体之间的关系,并展示了片段如何帮助美国人了解自己以及他们在民主共和国中的地位。库奇在书中进行了深入的研究,对汉娜-福斯特斯(Hannah Fosters)的《娇媚》、查尔斯-布罗克登-布朗(Charles Brockden Brown)的《埃德加-亨特利》(Edgar Huntly)和华盛顿-欧文(Washington Irving)的《素描集》(Sketch Book)等著名作品进行了深刻的解读,同时还向读者介绍了整个十九世纪早期出现在报纸、期刊和礼品书籍中的大量诗歌和其他短篇作品。American Fragments》中的原创性研究引人入胜,它也是书籍和报纸广泛数字化后新一轮学术浪潮的象征,因为它引入了许多难以与现有时间线和规范联系起来的新文本。在这方面,库奇的书也揭示了专著作为修订我们集体学术项目的工具所具有的局限性。
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AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY LITERATURE, AMERICAN-
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0.70
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25.00%
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178
期刊介绍: Recent Americanist scholarship has generated some of the most forceful responses to questions about literary history and theory. Yet too many of the most provocative essays have been scattered among a wide variety of narrowly focused publications. Covering the study of US literature from its origins through the present, American Literary History provides a much-needed forum for the various, often competing voices of contemporary literary inquiry. Along with an annual special issue, the journal features essay-reviews, commentaries, and critical exchanges. It welcomes articles on historical and theoretical problems as well as writers and works. Inter-disciplinary studies from related fields are also invited.
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