Geography and the Production of Space - In Nineteenth-century American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Hsuan L. Hsu is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He was the co-editor of American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900 (2007). Klappentext This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe. Zusammenfassung This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces! from the single-family home to the globe. It focuses on how nineteenth-century authors drew on literary tools including rhetoric! setting! and point of view to mediate between individuals and different spaces! and re-examines how local spaces were incorporated into global networks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction: scales of identification; 1. Democratic expansionism, gothic geographies, and Charles Brockden Brown; 2. Urban apartments, global cities: the enlargement of private space in Poe and James; 3. Cultural orphans: domesticity, missionaries, and China from Stowe to Sui Sin Far; 4. 'The Checkered Globe': cosmopolitan despair in the American Pacific; 5. Literature and regional production; Epilogue: scales of resistance.

Product details

• Authors: Hsuan L Hsu, Hsuan L. Hsu, Hsu Hsuan L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2010
• EAN: 9780521197069
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19706-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies; Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography