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When Confederate Troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--The bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social landscape. Prior to the war, America's leading writers had been integral to helping the young nation imagine itself, assert its beliefs, and realize its immense potential. When...
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"American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of Americas desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850?" "In The Importance of Feeling English, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using...
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