Bøger af Joseph Fichtelberg

This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency.

In The Complex Image, Joseph Fichtelberg takes a twofold approach to the role of revision in significant American autobiographies. He reexamines the problem of the autobiographical subject from a poststructuralist perspective, and he places that problem in the context of American culture.

Explores how strategies of performance shaped American responses to modernity. By examining a variety of early American authors and cultural figures, from Joseph Fichtelberg shows how early Americans created and resisted a dangerously liberating new world

Past studies have discussed antebellum and early national sentimental literature by and about women as a retreat from, or criticism of, the burgeoning market. This work examines how this literature actually helped to bring market behaviours into maturity.