The poetics of national and racial identity in nineteenth-century American literature /
Examining the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, Kerkering tells the story of how poetry helped define America as a nation before helping to define America into distinct racial categories. Through formal literary effects, national and racial identities be...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
139. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Examining the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, Kerkering tells the story of how poetry helped define America as a nation before helping to define America into distinct racial categories. Through formal literary effects, national and racial identities become related elements of a single literary history. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 351 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-342) and index. |
ISBN: | 0511062958 9780511062957 0511121636 9780511121630 0511071418 9780511071416 1280161604 9781280161605 9780521831147 0521831148 |