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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552771803321

Autore

González John Morán

Titolo

The Troubled Union : Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / / John Morán González

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8142-7100-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 146 p. )

Disciplina

813/.40935873

Soggetti

Allegory

National characteristics, American, in literature

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the historical crisis of post-Reconstruction national allegory -- Speaking American : Henry James and the dialect of modernity -- The hidden power : domesticity, national allegory, and empire in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona -- Blushing brides and soulless corporations : racial formation in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the don -- Epilogue : decentering national allegory.