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Dislocating race & nation [electronic resource] : episodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism / Robert S. Levine.

By: Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008Description: x, 322 p. ; 24 cm.Other title: Dislocating race and nation.Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | National characteristics, American, in literature | Literature and history -- United States -- History | Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History | American literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- History | Race relations in Literature | Black nationalism in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/3581 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Undoings -- Charles Brockden Brown, Louisiana, and the contingencies of empire -- Circulating the nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the appeals of black literary nationalism -- Genealogical fictions: Melville and Hannah crafts in Hawthorne's house -- Frederick Douglass's hemispheric nationalism, 1857-1893 -- Undoings redux.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Undoings -- Charles Brockden Brown, Louisiana, and the contingencies of empire -- Circulating the nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the appeals of black literary nationalism -- Genealogical fictions: Melville and Hannah crafts in Hawthorne's house -- Frederick Douglass's hemispheric nationalism, 1857-1893 -- Undoings redux.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.