The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in 19th Century American Literature

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.

Product details

• 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