The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels

by John Morán González

In The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels, John Mor?n Gonz?lez traces the imperialist imaginings behind literary efforts to reunite the United States after the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This innovative study explores how the U.S. historical romance attempted to rebuild a national identity by renovating Manifest Destiny for the twentieth-century imperialist future through courtship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814211291
• ISBN13: 9780814211298
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"