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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville Audiobook
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The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen’s American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book’s impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America’s most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.
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“A monumental revisionist study of nineteenth-century American literature that challenges both popular critical conceptions of Emerson, Whitman, Poe, et al., as well as fashionable schools of literary analysis…A tremendous work of scholarship.”
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“An original piece of work that gives the literary canon and its contexts a good shaking.”
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About David S. Reynolds
David S. Reynolds is a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of numerous acclaimed works of nonfiction, including of Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award. His Beneath the American Renaissance won the Christian Gauss Award. He is a regular book reviewer for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, and the Wall Street Journal.
About the Narrators
John Lescault, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.
John Lescault, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.