{"product_id":"history-abolition-and-the-ever-present-now-in-antebellum-american-writing-9780198825647","title":"History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing","description":"\u003cem\u003eHistory, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing \u003c\/em\u003eexamines 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 history--some, \u003cbr\u003ebut 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 the immediate emancipation of slaves, as opposed to those planning for a gradual end to slavery, the book recovers some of the\u003cbr\u003epolitical force of romanticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough close readings of texts by Washington 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\u003cbr\u003eirretrievably 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. The political, philosophical, and aesthetic disposition Insko calls\u003cbr\u003e'romantic presentism' insists upon the present as the fundamental sphere of human action and experience-and hence of ethics and democratic possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Insko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198825647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Insko, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor, Director of American Studies, Oakland University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeffrey Insko is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century US literature and culture. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award. His essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literary History, American Literature, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eESQ\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932114010227,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":63.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e26484a2-c5b2-49e3-86fd-6a2ecc491e66.jpg?v=1647790352","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/history-abolition-and-the-ever-present-now-in-antebellum-american-writing-9780198825647","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}