The Birth-mark: Essays

The Birth-mark: Essays

Susan Howe's classic groundbreaking exploration of early American literature.
In this classic, groundbreaking exploration of early American literature, Susan Howe reads our intellectual inheritance as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which a strange lawless author confronts interpreters and editors eager for settlement. Howe approaches Anne Hutchinson, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville and Emily Dickinson as a fellow writerâ€•her insights, fierce and original, are rooted in her seminal textural scholarship in examination of their editorial histories of landmark works. In the process, Howe uproots settled institutionalized roles of men and women as well as of poetry and proseâ€•and of poetry and prose. The Birth-mark, first published in 1993, now joins the New Directions canon of a dozen Susan Howe titles.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0811224651_used
ReleaseDate 2015-12-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811224659

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