| Description |
367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-348) and index. |
| Contents |
Of new worlds and old words: Cultural geography and the linguistic discovery of America / Ralph Bauer -- The dividing line of American federalism: Partitioning sovereignty in the early republic / Eric Slauter -- Word, image, and national geography: Panorama pamphlets and manifest destiny / Anne Baker -- The unknown and its Americas: Chateaubriand and Balzac cartographes / Tom Conley -- Mapping the terrain, marking the earth: William Emory and the writing of the U.S./Mexico border / Alex Hunt -- American graves, Pacific plots / Hester Blum -- Geography by destination: Rail travel, regional fiction, and the cultural production of geographical essentialism / Leigh Ann Litwiller Berte -- False promises and real estate: Land speculation and millennial maps in Herman Melville's Confidence-Man / Yvonne Elizabeth Pelletier -- Manzano, Madden, "El Negro Martire," and the revisionist geographies of abolitionism / Anna Brickhouse -- Geographic consciousness in the American slave narrative / Ian Finseth -- White flight: Maroon communities and the geography of antislavery in Higginson and Stowe / Martha Schoolman -- Geographies of the self in nineteenth-century women's travel writing / Susan L. Roberson -- Around the world and across the board: Nellie Bly and the geography of games / Edlie L. Wong. |
| Summary |
"This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores intersections between geography and American literary history, from the earliest geographic chronicles of the New World to the massive geopolitical transformation of the 1890s. Foregrounding the unsteady nature of geographical boundaries, the physical and imaginary migrations that coexisted with literary nationalisms, and changing attitudes toward geographical settings, these essays present alternatives to exceptionalist accounts of U.S. culture." "This book will appeal to readers interested in American studies, literary history, cultural geography, and material culture."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Geography in literature.
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Geography in literature. |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Regionalism in literature.
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Regionalism in literature. |
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United States -- In literature.
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United States. |
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Literature. |
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Geographie (Motiv) |
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Imperialismus (Motiv) |
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Sklaverei (Motiv) |
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Nationalcharakter (Motiv) |
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USA. |
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Geografie (Motiv) |
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Imperialismus (Motiv) |
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Literatur. |
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Nationalcharakter (Motiv) |
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Sklaverei (Motiv) |
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USA. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1500-1900 |
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Geschichte 1500-1900. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Brückner, Martin, 1963-
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Hsu, Hsuan L., 1976-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: American literary geographies. Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)608153019 |
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Online version: American literary geographies. Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)628863521 |
| ISBN |
0874139805 (alkaline paper) |
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9780874139808 (alkaline paper) |
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