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The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in 19th Century American
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Informationen zum Autor John D. Kerkering is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. He has published articles in American Literature and Studies in Romanticism. 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.

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Assisted by Albert Gelpi (Editor)
Authors John D. Kerkering, Jack D. Kerkering
Publisher Cambridge University Press Academic
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 31.12.2003
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
 
EAN 9780521831147
ISBN 978-0-521-83114-7
Dimensions (packing) 16 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm
 
Series Cambridge Studies in American > 139
Cambridge Studies in American > 139
 

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