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The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature

The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature

Hamilton, Geoff

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0813935296
ISBN13: 9780813935294
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Dec 17 2013
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature, Geoff Hamilton charts the evolution of the fundamental concept of autonomy in the American imaginary across the span of the nation's literary history. Whereas America's ideological roots are typically examined in relation to Enlightenment Europe, this book traces the American literary representation of autonomy back to its pastoral, political, and ultimately religious origins in ancient Greek thought. Tracking autonomy's evolution in America from the Declaration of Independence to contemporary works, Hamilton considers affinities between American and Greek literary characters--Natty Bumppo and Odysseus, Emerson's poet and Socrates, Cormac McCarthy's Judge Holden and Callicles--and reveals both what American literary history has in common with that of ancient Greece and what is distinctively its own.

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