Revised Lives
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allan
American Autobiography
American identity formation studies
Author_William Pannapacker
authorial persona construction
Barnum's Life
Barnum’s Life
Brown University Library
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Category=DS
character
Commemoration Ode
Dooryard Bloom
edgar
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ethnic and gender revisionism
Good Gray Poet
Gray Poet
helen
heth
interpretive communities
joice
Lincoln's Rhetoric
Lincoln’s Rhetoric
literary self-fashioning
Man
nineteenth-century autobiography
Personae
POE
Poe's Character
Poe's Writings
poes
Poe’s Character
Poe’s Writings
Political Religion
sarah
Saturday Club
Social Representativeness
sociology of literature
Stephen Burroughs
Ultima Thule
Violated
walt
Wandered
whitman
Whitman's Persona
Whitman's Poetry
Whitman's Writings
Whitman’s Persona
Whitman’s Poetry
Whitman’s Writings
Working Class Men
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367864149
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, this book focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae, and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities. Special emphasis is given to Walt Whitman, but other figures are treated at length: P. T. Barnum, Edward Carpenter, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe. This study contributes to the understanding of selfhood in nineteenth-century American culture, the development of autobiography as a genre, and the dynamics of literary reception.
William Pannapacker is Assistant Professor of English and Towsley Research Scholar at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He holds an A.M. in English and a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University, and is the author of numerous articles on nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
