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Philip F. Gura | Littérature et Arts | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Date de parution: 2013 | ISBN-13: 9780809094455 | Couverture: Rigide | Anglais | 330 pages
"Philip F. Gura has written the most ambitious, most comprehensive study ever attempted of American fiction from its beginnings to 1868. You will find here some novelists you've never heard of alongside old friends such as Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. By looking at novels thematically, and in the light of American religious history, Gura has produced a profoundly new kind of literary history, one linked beyond dispute to American theological concerns and American religious life. This book will change the way you look at the American novel. A grand achievement."
-Robert D. Richardson, Bancroft Prize-winning author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
"Updated literary history at its very best. By assimilating recent rediscoveries of Afro-American and women's fictions-and adding new insights and new titles of his own-Philip E. Gura has given us the only comprehensive study of the tumultuous, ever-growing marketplace of the early American novel. He shows us how the 'sentimental' tradition of women's domestic fiction became an unexpected vehicle for conveying spiritual and social heresy."
-John McWilliams, College Professor, Middlebury College
"Most modern-day readers wander into early American fiction as if it were the back lot of an old movie studio-full of strangely garbed frontiersmen ready for wilderness adventure. Truth's Ragged Edge brilliantly brings us face-to-face with dozens of fictional characters much more like us-urban, introspective, worried about moral survival in a money-grubbing society. Philip E. Gura's book has created a new genealogy of American anxiety."
-Richard Rabinowitz, President, American History Workshop
"Philip F. Gura's capacious book offers insightful literary analyses, deft book summaries, and concise biographies of authors that will be of great use to those interested in American fiction during its formative period."
-David S. Reynolds, award-winning author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
"Truth's Ragged Edge will allow you to reengage the classic novelists of the nineteenth century and to discover the long-neglected ones as well. Philip F. Gura packs a wealth of information about the early American novel into this illuminating study, and he writes movingly about novelists wrestling with the ideals and realities of democratic liberalism."
-Robert S. Levine, General Editor, The Norton Anthology of American Literature
