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Beschreibung
Examining work by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child, Strange Nation investigates America's often vexed relationships with the practice of literary nationalism.
Examining work by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child, Strange Nation investigates America's often vexed relationships with the practice of literary nationalism.
Über den Autor
J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of numerous publications, including Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity, and the co-editor of Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Acknowledgements

  • Introduction: The Strangeness of American Nationhood

  • Chapter 1: Refiguring the Foreign: Irving, Poe, and America's "Europe"

  • Chapter 2: Writing Against the Nation: Cooper's Gleanings

  • Chapter 3: Patriotic Anti-Nationalism: Minority Reports from Abroad

  • Chapter 4: Cleansing Actions: Rewriting the Border Wars

  • Chapter 5: Removal and Remorse in Jacksonian America

  • Chapter 6: National Awakening: Reconstructing the Revolution

  • Chapter 7: America Against Itself: The South, Slavery, and Dissociative National Identities

  • Chapter 8: The Cartography of Destiny and the Savage West

  • Chapter 9: The Interpreter of National Maladies: Poe's American Turn

  • Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195393699
ISBN-10: 0195393694
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kennedy, J Gerald
Hersteller: OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: J Gerald Kennedy
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,711 kg
Artikel-ID: 108608846