LEADER 03487nam 22007334a 450 001 9910455189603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0565-1 010 $a0-8078-8788-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764483 035 $a(EBL)454821 035 $a(OCoLC)405080003 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139937 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144887 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139937 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10028648 035 $a(PQKB)11717525 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245886 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454821 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28035 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454821 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310793 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764483 100 $a20080310d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDislocating race & nation$b[electronic resource] $eepisodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism /$fRobert S. Levine 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5903-6 311 $a0-8078-3226-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUndoings -- 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. 330 $aAmerican 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.