All the Devils Are Here

American Romanticism and Literary Influence

By:

David Greven

Format:

Paperback / softback

Show Hide Adult Content

$115.99

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $29.00 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 12-24 June using International Courier

Description

The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics. Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in King Lear informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in Moby-Dick. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.

Author Biography:

David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender.

Release date Australia

April 5th, 2024

Author

David Greven

Pages

304

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

6 b&w illus.

ISBN-13

9780813951027

Product ID

38435882

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here