The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by John D. Kerkering

Book Overview

John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521120969
• ISBN13: 9780521120968
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"