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Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation.

Publication: Intertexts
Publication Date: 22-MAR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 856 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Grossman, Jay. Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. xi + 273pp.

Jay Grossman's book is part of the New Americanists series edited by Donald Pease. Grossman places his analysis in opposition to F. O. Matthiessen's seminal American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941) and to the many studies that have separated the eighteenth-century Revolution from the nineteenth-century Renaissance. Focusing on the complex historical and discursive issues involving the concepts of constitution and representation, Grossman "posits a specifically American vision of the 'long eighteenth century' ... [and] demonstrates the extent to which Emerson and Whitman inherited different dimensions of these debates over representation, even as they treated as significant different aspects of the...

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