History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 23768187 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jeffrey Insko (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2018 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2018-12-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | BOOK |
| Revista | History and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198825647.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2906278495 |
| ISBN | 9780198825647 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 6 |
The Ever-Present Now examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts of the past; specifically, the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum U.S. literary history—some, but not all of whom we associate with the period’s Romantic movement. Anchored by the impatient temporality of immediatist abolitionists, the book recovers some of the political force of Romanticism, which becomes clear when we foreground time, especially the time of now . Through close readings of texts by figures as different as Washington Irving, John Neal, Catharine Sedgwick, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, the book argues that these writers, some explicitly and others implicitly, practiced forms of literary historiography that treat the past as neither simply a reflection of present interests nor as an irretrievably distant “other,” but as a complex and open-ended interaction between the two. In place of a fixed and immutable past with unidirectional movement, these writers imagine history as an experience rooted in a fluid, dynamic, ever-changing present. The political, philosophical, and aesthetic disposition Insko calls “romantic presentism” insists upon the present as the fundamental sphere of human action and experience and, hence, of ethics and democratic possibility.
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Historicity (philosophy) · Historiography · History of literature · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Period (music) · Politics · Romance · Romanticism · Temporality · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,2 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 6 |