Mapping region in early American writing / / edited by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461048003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens : , : University of Georgia Press, , [2015]
• ISBN: 0-8203-4823-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/001
• Soggetti: 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; Regionalism in literature; Space perception in literature; Landscapes in literature; Geographical perception in literature; Community life in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The essays collected in Mapping Region 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 communities, both real and imagined. The texts they study--some canonical, others archival, some literary, others scientific, polemical, or documentary--create and reveal important mental mappings and cartographies that reveal how a diversity of populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying various places in the American landscape"--Provided by publisher.