Zeno Ackermann

Messing with Romance

American Poetics and Antebellum Southern Fiction

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Messing with Romance is a reinvestigation of southern literary history and a case study in the potentials of genre criticism. Offering contextualized readings of novels produced by representatives of the southern elite between 1824 and 1854, the study traces a development that is as fascinating as it is contradictory: from pretences of realism to bold fantasies of fiction's socially transformative power, and eventually toward the collapse of the discourse of romance to which southern novelists had contributed with such desperate determination. Along the way, prominent critical clichés come under scrutiny: firstly, that antebellum southern lit… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-631-63245-1
EAN: 9783631632451
Produktnummer: 19463129
Verlag: Lang, Peter GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 229 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.6 cm 430 g
Auflage: Revised
Reihenbandnummer: 51
Gewicht: 430

Über den Autor

Zeno Ackermann teaches literary and cultural studies at the Department of English at Freie Universität Berlin, where he is involved in a research project on the reception of Shakespeare in post-war Germany. He works on aesthetics and ideology, on problems of remembering war and genocide, and on the interrelationships between the contemporary novel and audiovisual mass media.