Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865 /
The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and sectional strife. Canonical writers such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as those more recently acclaimed, such a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University Press of Mississippi,
2006
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and sectional strife. Canonical writers such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as those more recently acclaimed, such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, emerged amidst literature devoted to questions of nationalism, exploration, empire, the frontier, and slavery. This outpouring included some of the most important early works in African American, American Indian, and Chicana/Chicano literature. Empire. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604736144 1604736143 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
