The American Renaissance Reconsidered: 9 (Selected Papers from the English Institute) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801839378 ISBN 13: 9780801839375

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989

Synopsis

The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary "classics" appeared-works "original" enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular history so much as it denotes a rebirth from it: "Independent of the time kept by secular history, the American Renaissance keeps what we could call global Renaissance time-the sacred time a nation claims to renew, when it claims its cultural place as a great nation existing within a world of great nations. Providing each nation with the terms for cultural greatness denied to secular history, the 'renaissance' is not an occasion occurring within any specific historical time or place so much as it is a moment of cultural achievement that repeatedly demands to be reborn."

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary 'classics' appeared--works 'original' enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history.

About the Author:

Walter Benn Michaels is professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. Donald E. Pease is associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0801839378
• ISBN 13: 9780801839375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Michaels Walter Benn