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Master Plots

Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845

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Gardner, Jared

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

264 Seiten

Englisch

Johns Hopkins University Presserschienen am23.02.2001

As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily.mehr

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KlappentextAs early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8018-6538-1

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

FormatTrade Paperback (USA)

Verlag

Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2001

Erscheinungsdatum23.02.2001

Seiten264 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 153 mm, Höhe 228 mm, Dicke 15 mm

Gewicht435 g

Artikel-Nr.13560868

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsPrefaceChapter 1. The History of White NegroesChapter 2. The Prodigal in ChainsChapter 3. Edgar Huntly's Savage AwakeningChapter 4. Cooper's Vanishing American ActChapter 5. Poe's "Incredible Adventures and Discoveries Still Farther South" Chapter 6. Douglass and the Rewriting of American RaceNotesBibliographyIndexmehr

Kritik

Engaging and intriguing. -- Susan Kurjiaka American Literature This insightful volume complements the numerous critical studies that have shown how U.S. authors before the Civil War wished to create a literature different from European models. Gardner persuasively argues that many writers attempted to invent a national identity by defining 'American' in racial terms. Choicemehr