Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

by Lloyd Pratt

Book Overview

American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population could cluster around this common temporality as one forward-looking people.

In a bold revision of this narrative, Archives of American Time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812223721
• ISBN13: 9780812223729
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"