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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464820103321

Autore

Rifkin Mark

Titolo

Settler Common Sense [[electronic resource] ] : Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014

ISBN

1-4529-4206-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

809.933520397

Soggetti

Homosexuality in literature

Indians in literature

Queer theory

American literature - History and criticism - 19th century

Languages & Literatures

English

American Literature

Literature - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on the Cover; Introduction; 1 Ordinary Life and the Ethics of Occupation; 2 Romancing the State of Nature Speculation, Regeneration, and the Maine Frontier in House of the Seven Gables; 3 Loving Oneself Like a Nation Sovereign Self hood and the Autoerotics of Wilderness in Walden; 4 Dreaming of Urban Dispersion Aristocratic Genealogy and Indian Rurality in Pierre; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed.  In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven



Gables, Rifkin shows how the novel draws on Lockean theory in support of small-scale landholding and alternative practices of homemaking. The book