Early American Studies Now: A Response to the Respondents

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Early American Studies Now: A Response to the Respondents

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ID	2280743
Author(s)	Schweighauser, Philipp
Author(s) at UniBasel	Schweighauser, Philipp
Year	2013
Title	Early American Studies Now: A Response to the Respondents
Journal	Amerikastudien
Volume	58
Number	3
Pages / Article-Number	500-505
Abstract	This essay responds to reponses to the author's polemic about the state of Early American Studies. The polemic stages a critique of (often presentist) political readings of early American novels dominant in Early American Studies (and American Studies more generally), proposing a return to aesthetic questions informed by systems theory, Funktionsgeschichte (the history of the changing functions of fiction) and Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's original definition of aesthetics as "the science of sensuous cognition."
Publisher	Universitätsverlag Winter
ISSN/ISBN	0340-2827
edoc-URL	http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A6205472
Full Text on edoc	Available
Additional Information	Rejoinder to White, Ed. "A Response to Philipp Schweighauser." Amerikastudien/American Studies. 2013; 58(3): 488-492; Shapiro, Stephen. "Politics and Emotion in Early American Studies." Amerikastudien/American Studies. 2013; 58(3): 493-496; Faherty, Duncan. "Rethinking the Future of Early U.S. Literary Studies: A Response to Philipp Schweighauser." Amerikastudien/American Studies. 2013; 58(3): 497-499.

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