Title The poetics of national and racial identity in nineteenth-century American literature / John D. Kerkering.

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Description	xiii, 351 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 139
	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 139.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-342) and index.
Contents	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 -- 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 -- The conservation of identities.
Subject	American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Nationalism and literature.
	United States.
	History.
	United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
	Race relations.
	Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Nationalism.
	Group identity in literature.
	Group identity in literature.
	Race in literature.
	Race in literature.
ISBN	0521831148