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"The essays collected in Mapping Regions in Early American Writing study how American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions--imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively--played in the formation of American communit...

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Otros Autores: Watts, Edward, 1964-, Holt, Keri, Funchion, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Space perception in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Geographical perception in literature.
Community life in literature.
American literature > Revolutionary period (United States)
American literature > Colonial period.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature americaine > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 1775-1783 (Periode revolutionnaire) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 1783-1850 > Histoire et critique.
Litterature regionale.
Perception spatiale dans la litterature.
Paysages dans la litterature.
Perception geographique dans la litterature.
Communaute dans la litterature.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Bordering establishments: mapping and charting region before 1860 / Edward Watts and Keri Holt
  • Section 1. Chartings : colonies and countries
  • "To plant himself in with soveranity" : Welsh Indians and the early West, 1576-1812 / Edward Watts
  • Reading the routes : early American nature writing and critical regionalism before the "postfrontier" / William V. Lombardi
  • The "humor of the Old Southwest" and national regionality / Robert Gunn
  • West Indian emancipation and the time of regionalism in the hemispheric 1850s / Martha Schoolman
  • Section 2. Mappings : creating places
  • The labor of regions : a comparative analysis of the economic and literary production of three southern regions in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Steven W. Thomas
  • Captive in Mexico : Zebulon Pike and the new American regionalism / Andy Doolen
  • On the Hudson River line : postrevolutionary regionalism, neo-Tory sympathy, and "A lady of the State of New York" / Duncan Faherty
  • "I was now living in a new world" : Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford's cosmopolitan locality / Jennifer Schell
  • Section 3. Countermappings : new spaces in old places
  • Tribal Christianity : the second Great Awakening and William Apess's backwoods Methodism / Harry Brown
  • "We, too, the people" : rewriting resistance in the Cherokee Nation / Keri Holt
  • African American literature of the Gold Rush / Janet Neary and Hollis Robbins
  • Postscript: Creole adjudication : governing New Orleans and regional provisionality in the long nineteenth century / John Funchion.

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