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Making of Racial Sentiment
Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance

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Informationen zum Autor Ezra F. Tawil is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University. Klappentext Reveals the influence of the frontier romance of the 1820s on later anti-slavery works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin. Zusammenfassung The frontier novel of white-Indian conflict formed an apt analogy for the problem of slavery. By uncovering the sentimental aspects of this genre! Ezra Tawil reveals the influence of the 'Indian novel' of the 1820s on the sentimental novel of slavery! producing a new way of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: toward a literary history of racial sentiment; 1. The politics of slavery and the discourse of race, 1787-1840; 2. Remaking natural rights: race and slavery in James Fenimore Cooper's early writings; 3. Domestic frontier romance, or, how the sentimental heroine became white; 4. 'Homely legends': the uses of sentiment in Cooper's Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish; 5. Stowe's vanishing Americans: 'Negro' inferiority, captivity, and homecoming in Uncle Tom's Cabin; 6. Captain Babo's cabin: racial sentiment and the politics of misreading in Benito Cereno; Index.

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Ezra F. Tawil is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University.

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Authors Ezra (Associate Professor Tawil, Ezra Tawil
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 20.07.2006
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
 
EAN 9780521865395
ISBN 978-0-521-86539-5
Pages 256
 
Series Cambridge Studies in American > 151
Cambridge Studies in American > 151
 

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