American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Couch, Daniel Diez
American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Couch, Daniel Diez

American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic

In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian...
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Author: Daniel Diez Couch
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American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Couch, Daniel Diez

American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic

$1,204.55
American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic by Couch, Daniel Diez

American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic

$1,204.55
Author: Daniel Diez Couch
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called fragments. American Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a set of pressing questions about the relationship between aesthetic and national realities: What kind of artistic creation was a fragment?, And how and why did deliberately unfinished writing emerge alongside a country that was itself still unfinished?

Through discussions of eighteenth-century transatlantic aesthetics, the Revolutionary War, seduction novels, religious culture, and the construction of authorship, Daniel Diez Couch argues that the literary fragment was used as a means of representing individuals who did not fit neatly into the social fabric of the nation: beggars, prostitutes, veterans, and other ostracized figures. These individuals did not have a secure place in designs for the country's future, yet writers wielded the artistic form of the fragment as an apparatus for surveying their disputed positionality. Time and again, fragments asked what kind of identity marginalized individuals had, and how fictionalized versions of their life stories influenced the sociopolitical circumstances of the emergent nation. In their most progressive moments, the writers of fragments depicted their subjects as being in process, opting for a fluid version of the self instead of the bounded and coherent one typically hailed as the liberal individual.

Traversing aesthetics, political philosophy, material culture, and history, American Fragments gives new life to a literary form that at once played a significant role in the print ecology of the early republic, and that endures in the works of modernist and postmodernist writers and artists.

Author: Daniel Diez Couch
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.14w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780812253795

About the Author
Daniel Diez Couch is Assistant Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy.
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