Archives of American time : literature and modernity in the nineteenth century /

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In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pratt, Lloyd, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
1800-1899
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Group identity > United States > History > 19th century.
Time > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Time in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Identité collective > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Temps > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Temps dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Group identity
Modernism (Literature)
National characteristics, American, in literature
Time in literature
Time > Social aspects
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Written to the future
  • Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity
  • "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance
  • Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism
  • The deprivation of time in African American life writing
  • Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.

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