Archives of american time : literature and modernity in the nineteenth century /
In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812203530 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812203530.jpg |
Summary: |
In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | 6 illus. |
ISBN: | 9780812203530 |
Index Number: | PS217 |
CLC: | I712.06 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Written to the Future -- Chapter 1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity -- Chapter 2. A Magnificent Fragment : Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance -- Chapter 3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism -- Chapter 4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing -- Epilogue. The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |