Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

by David S. Reynolds

Book Overview

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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674065654
• ISBN13: 9780674065659
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

New Perspective on American Classic Literary Tradition

Truly well-thought, researched, and rendered. Reynolds grounds his literary analysis in a vivid sense of the transition from the Republic toward the corporate industrial era, explicating the dynamics of our vital tradition.