9780801865381 - Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 di Gardner, Jared (12 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. When the colonies ceased to be colonies and became the United States, the new nation quickly discovered that it needed a new literary identity, something specifically American. In Master Plots, Jared Gardner examines the tangled intersection of racial and national discourses in early American narrative. While it is well known that the writers of the early national period were preoccupied with differentiating their work from European models, Gardner argues that the national literature of the United States was equally motivated by the desire to differentiate white Americans from blacks and Indians. To achieve these ends, early American writers were drawn to fantasies of an "American race," and an American literature came to be defined not only by its desire for cultural uniqueness but also by its defense of racial purity. As race moved into the foreground of national policy in the first decades of the nineteenth century and became an issue that threatened to dissolve national identity, American writers were required to rethink race once again.With race no longer available as an abstract metaphor, many white writers worked to rewrite the fantasies of the previous generation that had bound the definition of a national literature so closely to the issues of race. Gardner follows the shifts in American narrative's engagement with race, from Royall Tyler's Algerine Captive through the novels of Brockden Brown and Cooper, to Poe's tales and Douglass's autobiographies, narratives that differently sought to rewrite the intersections of racial and national identity the first generation had plotted. The larger story Master Plots describes is how the racial language of "slavery" and "savagery" helped nationalist writers plot a unique identity for the new nation and the cost this "master plot" demanded when the empty rhetoric of one generation confronted the historical facts of slavery and Native American Removal in the next. The question of what it means to be an American has lost none of its severity and the desire for an answer none of its urgency. As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily."Master Plots is an intelligent and thoughtful study of the racial aspects of identity raised by formative American writers like Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass. Addressing issues such as the alien and naturalization laws, and the formation of a new nation in response to issues such as slavery and the Native American, it will appeal to scholars of American literature, American studies, and history, and should be a recommended book for graduate courses in the field."--Shirley Samuels, Cornell University "Master Plots is an intelligent and thoughtful study of the racial aspects of identity raised by formative American writers like Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass. Addressing issues such as the alien and naturalization laws, and the formation of a new nation in response to issues such as slavery and the Native American, it will appeal to scholars of American literature, American studies, and history, and should be a recommended book for graduate courses in the field."--Shirley Samuels, Cornell University As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Condizione: New. As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368. . 2000. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . .

Condizione: New. As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368. . 2000. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorJared Gardner is an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University.Klappentextrnrn This insightful volume complements the numerous critical studies that have shown how U.S. authors before .

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. When the colonies ceased to be colonies and became the United States, the new nation quickly discovered that it needed a new literary identity, something specifically American. In Master Plots, Jared Gardner examines the tangled intersection of racial and national discourses in early American narrative. While it is well known that the writers of the early national period were preoccupied with differentiating their work from European models, Gardner argues that the national literature of the United States was equally motivated by the desire to differentiate white Americans from blacks and Indians. To achieve these ends, early American writers were drawn to fantasies of an "American race," and an American literature came to be defined not only by its desire for cultural uniqueness but also by its defense of racial purity. As race moved into the foreground of national policy in the first decades of the nineteenth century and became an issue that threatened to dissolve national identity, American writers were required to rethink race once again.With race no longer available as an abstract metaphor, many white writers worked to rewrite the fantasies of the previous generation that had bound the definition of a national literature so closely to the issues of race. Gardner follows the shifts in American narrative's engagement with race, from Royall Tyler's Algerine Captive through the novels of Brockden Brown and Cooper, to Poe's tales and Douglass's autobiographies, narratives that differently sought to rewrite the intersections of racial and national identity the first generation had plotted. The larger story Master Plots describes is how the racial language of "slavery" and "savagery" helped nationalist writers plot a unique identity for the new nation and the cost this "master plot" demanded when the empty rhetoric of one generation confronted the historical facts of slavery and Native American Removal in the next. The question of what it means to be an American has lost none of its severity and the desire for an answer none of its urgency. As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily."Master Plots is an intelligent and thoughtful study of the racial aspects of identity raised by formative American writers like Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass. Addressing issues such as the alien and naturalization laws, and the formation of a new nation in response to issues such as slavery and the Native American, it will appeal to scholars of American literature, American studies, and history, and should be a recommended book for graduate courses in the field."--Shirley Samuels, Cornell University "Master Plots is an intelligent and thoughtful study of the racial aspects of identity raised by formative American writers like Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass. Addressing issues such as the alien and naturalization laws, and the formation of a new nation in response to issues such as slavery and the Native American, it will appeal to scholars of American literature, American studies, and history, and should be a recommended book for graduate courses in the field."--Shirley Samuels, Cornell University As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.