Strange Nation - Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe

Zusatztext Kennedy's most important accomplishment here might be his convincing and consistent positioning of Edgar Allan Poe as a vital interlocutor and investigator of this period of strange nationalism. Informationen zum Autor J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of numerous publications, including Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity, and the co-editor of Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race. Klappentext Examining work by Washington Irving! James Fenimore Cooper! Catharine M. Sedgwick! William Gilmore Simms! Nathaniel Hawthorne! and Lydia Maria Child! Strange Nation investigates America's often vexed relationships with the practice of literary nationalism. Zusammenfassung Examining work by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child, Strange Nation investigates America's often vexed relationships with the practice of literary nationalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Strangeness of American Nationhood; Chapter 1: Refiguring the Foreign: Irving! Poe! and America's Europe; Chapter 2: Writing Against the Nation: Cooper's Gleanings; Chapter 3: Patriotic Anti-Nationalism: Minority Reports from Abroad; Chapter 4: Cleansing Actions: Rewriting the Border Wars; Chapter 5: Removal and Remorse in Jacksonian America; Chapter 6: National Awakening: Reconstructing the Revolution; Chapter 7: America Against Itself: The South! Slavery! and Dissociative National Identities; Chapter 8: The Cartography of Destiny and the Savage West; Chapter 9: The Interpreter of National Maladies: Poe's American Turn; Bibliography

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• Authors: J. Gerald Kennedy, J. Gerald (Boyd Professor of English Kennedy, Kennedy J. Gerald
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2016
• EAN: 9780195393682
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539368-2
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, English, Nationalism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas