The poetics of national and racial identity in nineteenth-century American literature

Examining the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, Kerkering tells the story of how poetry helped define America as a nation before helping to define America into distinct racial categories. Through formal literary effects, national and racial identities be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kerkering, John D. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2003.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [139]
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31903332*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I: The poetics of national identity
  • 1. "We are five-and-forty": meter and national identity in Sir Walter Scott
  • 2. "Our sacred union." "our beloved Apalachia": nation and genius loci in Hawthorne and Simms
  • II: The poetics of racial identity
  • 3. "Of me and of mine": the music of racial identity
  • 4. "Blood will tell": literary effects and the diagnosis of racial instinct
  • The conservation of identities.