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Solitude and Postbellum Literary Culture: Elizabeth Stoddard, William Dean Howells, and Henry Adams /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Solitude and Postbellum Literary Culture: Elizabeth Stoddard, William Dean Howells, and Henry Adams // Chelsea Bronwynn Latremouille.
Author:	Latremouille, Chelsea Bronwynn,
Description:	1 electronic resource (206 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-12A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29995594
ISBN:	9798379762544

Solitude and Postbellum Literary Culture: Elizabeth Stoddard, William Dean Howells, and Henry Adams /
Latremouille, Chelsea Bronwynn,

Solitude and Postbellum Literary Culture: Elizabeth Stoddard, William Dean Howells, and Henry Adams /Chelsea Bronwynn Latremouille. - 1 electronic resource (206 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.

This dissertation tells a new story about the role of solitude in late-nineteenth-century American culture. The figure of the solitary individual informed the consolidation of liberalism and the rise of literary romanticism in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Louis Hartz has famously argued that liberalism came to define America's "way of life," while F.O. Matthiessen and Richard Chase have claimed that American literature is effectively romantic. Despite solitude's importance to American political and aesthetic thought, however, the role of isolation in American culture is under-studied outside the contexts of antebellum romanticism and the existential alienation associated with modernism. My study asks, what happens to discourses of solitude between romanticism and modernism, that is, in "the Age of Realism"? Accordingly, I examine solitude in postbellum literature, exploring how beliefs about the transformative power of solitude change under the pressures of an increasingly industrialized and mechanized society. I argue that solitude becomes an important discourse through which many late-nineteenth-century writers questioned their political assumptions and navigated the meaning of declining republican political values. The authors I consider, Elizabeth Stoddard, William Dean Howells, and Henry Adams, confronted the limitations of liberalism to grapple with a progressively unequal society, and they expressed these limits in often-contradictory celebrations and critiques of solitude. My study reveals an impasse shared by these writers regarding the value of solitude. For them, neither republican, classical liberal, nor romantic valuations of solitude fully survive America's transition into an industrial modernity. But neither are these outlooks entirely surrendered. My readings of Stoddard, Howells, and Adams disclose an emerging American modernity still partially shaped by powerful inherited discourses of solitude reflecting romantic ideals that prove inadequate to new social and economic conditions. Postbellum realism tries but fails to escape a romantic bind in which these authors' adherence to discourses of solitude appears to produce the very social and political problems of economic marginalization, inequality, and alienation that they sought to avoid. Complicating critical narratives in which realism develops in reaction to romanticism, this project demonstrates that romantic ideals of solitude shaped realism into the early twentieth century.

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ISBN: 9798379762544Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
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Liberalism

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