LEADER 04750nam 2200733 450 001 9910461048003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8203-4823-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529291 035 $a(EBL)4397160 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001582743 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16259444 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001582743 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12477286 035 $a(PQKB)10378822 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397160 035 $a(OCoLC)933515893 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46355 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397160 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11206676 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL875891 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529291 100 $a20150313d2015 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMapping region in early American writing /$fedited by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion 210 1$aAthens :$cUniversity of Georgia Press,$d[2015] 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8203-4822-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Bordering establishments: mapping and charting region before 1860 / Edward Watts and Keri Holt -- Section 1. Chartings : colonies and countries -- "To plant himself in with soveranity" : Welsh Indians and the early West, 1576-1812 / Edward Watts -- Reading the routes : early American nature writing and critical regionalism before the "postfrontier" / William V. Lombardi -- The "humor of the Old Southwest" and national regionality / Robert Gunn -- West Indian emancipation and the time of regionalism in the hemispheric 1850s / Martha Schoolman -- Section 2. Mappings : creating places -- The labor of regions : a comparative analysis of the economic and literary production of three southern regions in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Steven W. Thomas -- Captive in Mexico : Zebulon Pike and the new American regionalism / Andy Doolen -- On the Hudson River line : postrevolutionary regionalism, neo-Tory sympathy, and "A lady of the State of New York" / Duncan Faherty -- "I was now living in a new world" : Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford's cosmopolitan locality / Jennifer Schell -- Section 3. Countermappings : new spaces in old places -- Tribal Christianity : the second Great Awakening and William Apess's backwoods Methodism / Harry Brown -- "We, too, the people" : rewriting resistance in the Cherokee Nation / Keri Holt -- African American literature of the Gold Rush / Janet Neary and Hollis Robbins -- Postscript: Creole adjudication : governing New Orleans and regional provisionality in the long nineteenth century / John Funchion. 330 2 $a"The essays collected in Mapping Region in Early American Writing study how American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions--imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively--played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. The texts they study--some canonical, others archival, some literary, others scientific, polemical, or documentary--create and reveal important mental mappings and cartographies that reveal how a diversity of populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying various places in the American landscape"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican literature$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$yRevolutionary period, 1775-1783$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRegionalism in literature 606 $aSpace perception in literature 606 $aLandscapes in literature 606 $aGeographical perception in literature 606 $aCommunity life in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRegionalism in literature. 615 0$aSpace perception in literature. 615 0$aLandscapes in literature. 615 0$aGeographical perception in literature. 615 0$aCommunity life in literature. 676 $a810.9/001 702 $aWatts$b Edward$f1964- 702 $aHolt$b Keri 702 $aFunchion$b John 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461048003321 996 $aMapping region in early American writing$92132471 997 $aUNINA