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Our South [[electronic resource] ] : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / / Jennifer Rae Greeson



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Autore: Greeson Jennifer Rae Visualizza persona
Titolo: Our South [[electronic resource] ] : geographic fantasy and the rise of national literature / / Jennifer Rae Greeson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 356 p. ) : ill., maps
Disciplina: 810.9/35875
Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism
American literature - Southern States - History and criticism
National characteristics, American, in literature
Nationalism in literature
Nationalism and literature - United States - History
Soggetto geografico: Southern States In literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Formerly CIP.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction : magnet South -- Nationalization / The Plantation South -- The problem of the plantation -- Putting the colonial past in its place -- Domestic possession and the imperial impulse -- The enemy within -- Industrialization and expansion / The slave South -- Underwriting free labor and free soil -- American universal geography -- Dark satanic fields -- The masterwork of national literature -- The question of empire / The Reconstruction South -- Abandoned lands and exceptional empire -- The glory of disaster -- Internal islands and the American scene, 1898/1905.
Sommario/riassunto: This work tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the 20th century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address.
Titolo autorizzato: Our South  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-05935-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460210903321
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