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

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by Reynolds, David S.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780199782840.

Since its initial publication, David Reynoldss Beneath the American Renaissance has become a seminal resource for understanding American literature. It ranks alongside classics like F.O. Matthiessens The American Renaissance, R.W.B. Lewiss The American Adam, and Eric Sundquists To Wake the Nations as a book that defined how we apprehend our literary past. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which Reynolds is now known. Now back in print in an affordable paperback edition that includes a new foreword by Sean Wilentz that recollects the books impact and influence, a lost gem returns. It is poised to find an appreciative new readership in anyone interested in the genesis of Americas most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures-Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville-who defined it.