{"product_id":"9780813951027-all-the-devils-are-here","title":"All the Devils Are Here","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican Romanticism and Literary Influence\u003cbr\u003eExplores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race. With \u003cem\u003eAll the Devils Are Here\u003c\/em\u003e, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With \u003ci\u003eAll the Devils Are Here\u003c\/i\u003e, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado about Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41557434925153,"sku":"9780813951027","price":28.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38150884.jpg?v=1763753228","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780813951027-all-the-devils-are-here","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}