Our South : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature /

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This work tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the 20th century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greeson, Jennifer Rae
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Nationalism and literature > United States > History.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Nationalisme et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Literature.
Nationalism and literature.
Southern States > In literature.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la littérature.
Southern States.
United States.
Electronic book.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : magnet South
  • Nationalization/The Plantation South
  • The problem of the plantation
  • Putting the colonial past in its place
  • Domestic possession and the imperial impulse
  • The enemy within
  • Industrialization and expansion/The slave South
  • Underwriting free labor and free soil
  • American universal geography
  • Dark satanic fields
  • The masterwork of national literature
  • The question of empire/The Reconstruction South
  • Abandoned lands and exceptional empire
  • The glory of disaster
  • Internal islands and the American scene, 1898-1905.

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