Oxford University Press, Date: 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 9x6x1. Dark blue hardback in new condition: firm and square with bright gilt lettering. Complete with original dustjacket, neat and sharp, not showing any scuffs, tears or chips. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Looks and feels unread. Thus a very nice copy. 2019. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198825641 9780198825647 [GB]

Oxford University Press 2019 First Edition Hardcover New in New jacket Size: 9x6x1; Dark blue hardback in new condition: firm and square with bright gilt lettering. Complete with original dustjacket, neat and sharp, not showing any scuffs, tears or chips. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Looks and feels unread. Thus a very nice copy.

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ISBN10: 0198825641, ISBN13: 9780198825647, [publisher: OUP OXFORD 2018-12-18, Oxford] Hardcover Language: ENG
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ISBN10: 0198825641, ISBN13: 9780198825647, [publisher: OUP OXFORD 2018-12-18, Oxford] Hardcover Language: ENG
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Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 2019. Hardcover. New. 255 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. 2019. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 0198825641 9780198825647 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0198825641, ISBN13: 9780198825647, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. History and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specifically, the writings of several figures in antebellum US literary historysome, but not all of whom, associated with the period's romantic movement. Focusing on nineteenth-century writers who were impatient for social change, like those advocating for theimmediate emancipation of slaves, as opposed to those planning for a gradual end to slavery, the book recovers some of the political force of romanticism. Through close readings of texts byWashington Irving, John Neal, Catharine Sedgwick, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, the book argues that these writers practiced forms of literary historiography that treat the past as neither 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 linear past, these writers imagine history as an experience rooted in a fluid, dynamic, and ever-changing present. Thepolitical, 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 anddemocratic ...
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ISBN10: 0198825641, ISBN13: 9780198825647, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover 255 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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