Archives of American Time : Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century /

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American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse populat...

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Autor principal: Pratt, Lloyd (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Temas:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Group identity > United States > History > 19th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Time > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Time > Social aspects.
Cultural Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Literature.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Written to the Future
  • Chapter 1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity
  • Chapter 2. ''A Magnificent Fragment'': Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance
  • Chapter 3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism
  • Chapter 4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing
  • Epilogue. The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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