{"product_id":"episodic-poetics-politics-and-literary-form-after-the-constitution-9780190887445","title":"Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form After the Constitution","description":"The early United States was a culture of the episode. In \u003cem\u003eEpisodic Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince Aristotle's \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e, the episode has been a vexed category of literary analysis, troubling any easy view of the subsumption of unwieldy narrative parts into well-plotted wholes. Garrett puts forward a new, dialectical theory of episodic form to recast this peculiar object of literary history, looking to the episode as a narrative unit smaller than the genre in order to give an account of all the period's major prose genres. Garrett shows how, in ways both magisterial and mundane, episodic forms gave variegated shape to the social, political, and economic conflicts that defined the moment of national formation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eEpisodic Poetics \u003c\/em\u003eproposes a new method of reading and a new way of conceiving of literary history. The book asks how we might understand the cultural role of the episode as a literary micro-unit, one that forces us to read individual narratives in terms of an always partial and fraught development toward plot. \u003cem\u003eEpisodic Poetics \u003c\/em\u003ecombines theoretical reflection and historical rigor with careful readings of texts from the early American canon such as \u003cem\u003eThe Federalist\u003c\/em\u003e, Benjamin Franklin's \u003cem\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/em\u003e, and the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, along with hitherto understudied texts and ephemera such as Washington Irving's \u003cem\u003eSalmagundi\u003c\/em\u003e, Susanna Rowson's \u003cem\u003eTrials of the Human Heart\u003c\/em\u003e and the memoirs of the metalworker and failed entrepreneur John Fitch. Garrett recounts literary history not as the easy victory of grand nationalist ambitions, but rather as a series of social struggles expressed through writers' recurring engagement with incompletely integrated forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Garrett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190887445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Garrett\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41179288600691,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":67.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_23508454-5158-49fd-a128-e09266f8dbb2.jpg?v=1703607372","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/episodic-poetics-politics-and-literary-form-after-the-constitution-9780190887445","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}