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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 |
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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: The poetics of national identity
- 1. "We are five-and-forty": meter and national identity in Sir Walter Scott
- 2. "Our sacred union." "our beloved Apalachia": nation and genius loci in Hawthorne and Simms
- II: The poetics of racial identity
- 3. "Of me and of mine": the music of racial identity
- 4. "Blood will tell": literary effects and the diagnosis of racial instinct
- The conservation of identities.