Dislocating race & nation : episodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism

Dislocating race & nation : episodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism /

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this asse...

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Main Author: Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and history > United States > History.
Nationalism and literature > United States > History.
American literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > History.
Race relations in literature.
Black nationalism in literature.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Undoings
  • Charles Brockden Brown, Louisiana, and the contingencies of empire
  • Circulating the nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the appeals of black literary nationalism
  • Genealogical fictions: Melville and Hannah crafts in Hawthorne's house
  • Frederick Douglass's hemispheric nationalism, 1857-1893
  • Undoings redux.

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