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philip gould Brown University What is the subject of aesthetics doing to early American literary studies? What are we doing to (and with) the subject of aesthetics? This is a timely and important issue of Early American Literature dedi - cated to a subject that is becoming newly relevant to the entire field. The essays collected here model distinctive and innovative methods with which to mobilize the category of aesthetics in early American literary studies. They also register the critical and intellectual stresses that arise from the critical reinvention of aesthetics in a scholarly field that traditionally has been invested in historical modes of analysis and interpretation. In co - l lecting this set of essays Edward Larkin and Edward Cahill seem to be ad - dressing important critical questions for our field to seriously consider at the present moment: Are historical and aesthetic understandings of early American texts compatible? Or do they lend themselves to such disparate concerns and modes of reading—the surfaces or depths of texts, for ex - ample—that they cannot help but reveal fundamental ruptures in our cr -iti cal and professional assumptions? What I admire especially about this co - l lection is that
Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 13, 2016
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