"In Irving, we find the direction of American literature and its ambivalence about values and meaning. He was a localist creating a national myth, interested in the people and history around him. He was also a cosmopolitan looking across states, oceans, and time. Whether at home or abroad, Irving found something of importance."

Washington Irving, US Trailblazer

https://www.city-journal.org/article/american-trailblazer?wallit_nosession=1 via "City Journal
Image: PhotoQuest/NARA via "City Journal"
#WashingtonIrving #AmericanLiterature #Literature

#Time, #narrative, love to see #Genette! For more literary criticism on time, you might check out my book on time, #tense, and #Americanliterature, and the volume I edited, A Question of Time, both published by #CambridgeUniversityPress and available in paperback. #litstudies https://lithub.com/rachel-beanland-on-managing-time-in-fiction/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20April%2014%2C%202023&utm_term=lithub_master_list

#Time, #narrative, love to see #Genette! For more literary criticism on time, you might check out my book on time, #tense, and #Americanliterature, and the volume I edited, A Question of Time, both published by #CambridgeUniversityPress and availabie in paperback. https://lithub.com/rachel-beanland-on-managing-time-in-fiction/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20April%2014%2C%202023&utm_term=lithub_master_list

“The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf.”

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, 1962.

#amreading #ShirleyJackson #AmericanLiterature

"My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it."

#Thoreau #poet #poetry #literature #AmericanLiterature #Transcendentalism #AWeekOnTheConcordAndMerrimackRivers

It's a shame that #Thoreau's first book (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers), the one he was writing while at #Walden pond, gets so little appreciation.

It is a much more difficult read, yes, but one that I appreciate more and more as I get older.

#AmericanLiterature #Transcendentalism @bookstodon

Earlier today, a friend alerted me to a truly stupendous intersection of my interests: Eurovision and American Literature. Austria's entry this year is called 'Who The Hell Is Edgar?' and features the lyric 'Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe.' An immediate douze points! No notes whatsoever! #Eurovision #AmericanLiterature

https://youtu.be/ZMmLeV47Au4

Happy Valentine's Day! 💖 #Puritans #AmericanLiterature

'"[...] do not,” said Menenhetet, touching me gently by the shoulder, “feel too weak before what is to come. It could have happened to you already. Yes, dear son of my dear granddaughter, Hathfertiti, your terror may have more dignity than you know. It might belong to the remorse of your past rather than tell you of some unendurable torture to come.”'

Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings, 1983.

#amreading #AmericanLiterature

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: ‘Cat Person’ Should’ve Stayed a Short Story https://jezebel.com/cat-person-movie-review-1850023471 #Jezebel #entertainment2cculture #geraldineviswanathan #isabellarossellini #americanliterature #kristenroupenian #michelleashford #americanwriters #nicholasbraun #emiliajones #hazelcills #catperson #roupenian #sundance #susanna #kristen #robert #margot #fogel

One more day to submit proposals for "Jamesian Space," a panel organized by the Henry James Society for the American Literature Association Annual Conference, to be held in Boston, MA May 25-28, 2023. Full details here!
https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/societies-call-for-papers/

#HenryJames #AmericanLiterature #ALA2023 #LitStudies @litstudies​

One more day to submit proposals for Jamesian Space," a panel organized by the Henry James Society for the American Literature Association Annual Conference, to be held in Boston, MA May 25-28, 2023. Full details here!
https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/societies-call-for-papers/

#HenryJames #AmericanLiterature #ALA2023 #LitStudies @litstudies​

Turned on a film while eating my avocado toast for brunch and it's left me in a melancholy daze. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont isn't nearly as good as the book - SHOCK - and it's harshed my chill.

Anyway. I'm considering a short walk, followed by reading something very good, indeed, by Willa Cather.

Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

#films #mrspalfreyattheclaremont #willacather #americanliterature #nebraska #bookstodon #sundee #bluestalking

Any Shirley Jackson fans out there? You might be interested in this online symposium happening on December 14th. Find out more about it here: https://www.tcd.ie/research/researchmatters/shirleycon.php
#ShirleyJackson #AmericanLiterature #gothic

Did y’all know that there is a movie out that’s about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s life? Seems kind of niche, but I guess it’s focused on religion in his life. #AmericanLiterature

“Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded.”

- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

#UptonSinclair #SocialistFiction #PoliticalFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon

“I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.”

The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers

#RobertWChambers #Supernatural #SupernaturalFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon

The Henry James Society invites abstracts for "Jamesian Space" American Literature Association Annual Conference Boston, MA May 25-28, 2023 Abstracts due Jan. 10. Full details here: https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/societies-call-for-papers/

#HenryJames #AmericanLiterature #ALA2023 #LitStudies @litstudies

“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”

The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce

#TheDevilsDictionary #AmbroseBierce #ClassicBooks #SatiricalDictionary #Lexicon #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon

“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”

The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce

#TheDevilsDictionary #AmbroseBierce #ClassicBooks #SatiricalDictionary #Lexicon #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon