Liminal Whiteness in early US fiction /

Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, Hannah, 1989- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Colección:Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
Temas:
1800-1899
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
White people in literature.
Race in literature.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
American fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Inexplicable Voices: Liminal Whiteness in the Early United States
  • 'A shriek so terrible!': Charles Brockden Brown's Sensational Ventriloquists
  • 'This is a story-telling age': Spectral Nostalgia in Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall
  • 'What had become of me?': Sheppard Lee's Blackface Transformation
  • 'I say to you that I am dead!': Edgar Allan Poe's Protesting Cadavers
  • 'How can I speak to thee?': Herman Melville's Muted Voice
  • 'I'm making a white man of him': Making and Breaking Whiteness in The Garies and their Friends
  • Coda: The Resurrection of Whiteness.

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