Dislocating Race & Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism

by Robert S. Levine

Book Overview

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment by exploring the conflicted, multiracial, and contingent dimensions present in the works of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807859036
• ISBN13: 9780807859032
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"