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Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865 /

The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and sectional strife. Canonical writers such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as those more recently acclaimed, such a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sundquist, Eric J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The land of promise
  • Exploration and empire
  • To muse on nations passed away
  • The frontier and American Indians
  • No more auction block for me
  • The literature of slavery and African American culture.