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This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's "Virgin Land" and Leo Marx's "The Machine in the Garden."--Choice "[Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, "engagement "with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. In effect, he relocates the American Renaissance where it properly belongs, at the centre of a broad social, economic, and ideological movement from the Jacksonian era to ...

Argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South.

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