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Sacred Violence in Early America by Susan Juster (review)

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as I do not assume that any of the other writers under consideration modeled their narratives on European theorizations of beauty and art. Instead I argue that, despite surface appearances,… Click to show full abstract

as I do not assume that any of the other writers under consideration modeled their narratives on European theorizations of beauty and art. Instead I argue that, despite surface appearances, Rowson and Schiller held in common certain assumptions concerning the functions of art that inform both late eighteenthcentury American artistic production and contemporaneous European reflections on art more generally, testifying to their shared liminal position in the course of Western modernization. (118)

Keywords: america susan; early america; juster review; susan juster; sacred violence; violence early

Journal Title: Early American Literature
Year Published: 2018

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