03453nam 22007214a 450 991077795920332120200520144314.01-4696-0565-10-8078-8788-9(CKB)1000000000764483(EBL)454821(OCoLC)405080003(SSID)ssj0000139937(PQKBManifestationID)11144887(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139937(PQKBWorkID)10028648(PQKB)11717525(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245886(MdBmJHUP)muse28035(Au-PeEL)EBL454821(CaPaEBR)ebr10310793(MiAaPQ)EBC454821(EXLCZ)99100000000076448320080310d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDislocating race & nation[electronic resource] episodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism /Robert S. LevineChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20081 online resource (335 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5903-6 0-8078-3226-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Undoings -- Charles Brockden Brown, Louisiana, and the contingencies of empire -- Circulating the nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the appeals of black literary nationalism -- Genealogical fictions: Melville and Hannah crafts in Hawthorne's house -- Frederick Douglass's hemispheric nationalism, 1857-1893 -- Undoings redux.American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and African American writers. Conflict and uncertainty, not consensus, Levine argues, helped define American literary nationalism during this period. <BAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureLiterature and historyUnited StatesHistoryNationalism and literatureUnited StatesHistoryAmerican literature18th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyHistoryRace relations in literatureBlack nationalism in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Literature and historyHistory.Nationalism and literatureHistory.American literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistory.Race relations in literature.Black nationalism in literature.810.9/3581Levine Robert S(Robert Steven),1953-895480MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777959203321Dislocating race & nation3761786UNINA