The Poetics of National and Racial Ident

Klappentext John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Zusammenfassung 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 become related elements of a single literary history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part 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; Part 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; Conclusion: the conversation of identities; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John D. Kerkering
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521120968
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12096-8
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies