02880nam 2200637 a 450 991078530810332120200520144314.01-282-91733-197866129173321-60473-614-3(CKB)2670000000061812(EBL)619223(OCoLC)688317409(SSID)ssj0000416745(PQKBManifestationID)11270082(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416745(PQKBWorkID)10441420(PQKB)11140350(OCoLC)781311812(MdBmJHUP)muse13596(Au-PeEL)EBL619223(CaPaEBR)ebr10432105(CaONFJC)MIL291733(MiAaPQ)EBC619223(EXLCZ)99267000000006181220060111e20061995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmpire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865[electronic resource] /Eric J. SundquistJackson University Press of Mississippi20061 online resource (261 p.)Originally published as: The Cambridge history of American literature, volume 2, 1820-1865. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994-<2004>.1-57806-863-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.The land of promise -- Exploration and empire -- To muse on nations passed away -- The frontier and American Indians -- No more auction block for me -- The literature of slavery and African American culture.The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and sectional strife. Canonical writers such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as those more recently acclaimed, such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, emerged amidst literature devoted to questions of nationalism, exploration, empire, the frontier, and slavery. This outpouring included some of the most important early works in African American, American Indian, and Chicana/Chicano literature. Empire American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSlavery in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureIndians in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Slavery in literature.African Americans in literature.Indians in literature.810.9/358Sundquist Eric J595972MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785308103321Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-18653678861UNINA