The Sacred Game: Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860

by Albert J. von Frank and Frank Albert Von

Book Overview

This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in the expressions of writers before the Civil War certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain perceptions of displacement and decline, so profoundly characteristic as to amount to a defining trait of American literature. As a frontier nation, America lacked an organic culture of its own and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521090008
• ISBN13: 9780521090001
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"