{"product_id":"21-19-contemporary-poets-in-the-nineteenth-century-archive-paperback","title":"21 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Manglis\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKristen Case\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFred Moten\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and individual agency were promising, even if belied in reality by violence and hypocrisy. The writers of this \"American Renaissance\"--Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson, among many others--produced a body of work that has been both celebrated and contested by following generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the twenty-first century unfolds in a United States characterized by deep divisions, diminished democracy, and dramatic transformation of identities, the co-editors of this singular book approached a dozen North American poets, asking them to engage with texts by their predecessors in a manner that avoids both aloofness from the past and too-easy elegy. The resulting essays dwell provocatively on the border between the lyrical and the scholarly, casting fresh critical light on the golden age of American literature and exploring a handful of texts not commonly included in its canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA polyvocal collection that reflects the complexity of the cross-temporal encounter it enacts, \u003cem\u003e21 19\u003c\/em\u003e offers a re-reading of the \"American Renaissance\" and new possibilities for imaginative critical practice today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Manglis\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor, writer of short fiction and creative non-fiction, and co-founder of the experimental poetry magazine \u003ci\u003eWave Composition\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStrange Horizons\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an enthusiastic alumna of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and holds a D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford. She lives in Nicosia, Cyprus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eKristen Case\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the critical study \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe\u003c\/i\u003e. Her first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eLittle Arias\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and her second collection, \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Economics\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments\u003c\/i\u003e and director of \u003ci\u003eThoreau's Kalendar: A Digital Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is director of the New Commons Project, a public humanities initiative sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. She lives in Temple, Maine.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.5 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771448033568,"sku":"9781571313775","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/835f5285662ab2a143f4e6305052971e.webp?v=1780386762","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/21-19-contemporary-poets-in-the-nineteenth-century-archive-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}