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  • - The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr
    af Ed White & Michael J. Drexler
    342,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles Brockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets, polemics, tracts, and biographies of the early republican period, the authors speculate that this flourishing of political writing illuminates the notorious gap in US literary history between 1800 and 1820.

  • af Mary Kuhn
    345,95 - 1.002,95 kr.

  • - Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954
    af Chelsea Stieber
    366,95 - 1.131,95 kr.

  • - Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
    af Edward Sugden
    363,95 - 999,95 kr.

    "Also available as an ebook" -- Verso title page.

  • - Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959
    af Alberto Varon
    398,95 - 1.110,95 kr.

  • - Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
    af Britt Rusert
    389,95 - 1.110,95 kr.

    "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.

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    370,95 kr.

    A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth centuryWritten by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as they shed light on well-known writers. This volume situates nineteenth-century Latino intellectuals and writers within crucial national, hemispheric, and regional debates. The Latino Nineteenth Century offers a long-overdue corrective to the Anglophone and nation-based emphasis of American literary history. Contributors track Latino/a lives and writing through routes that span Philadelphia to San Francisco and roots that extend deeply into Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South Americas, and Spain. Readers will find in the rich heterogeneity of texts and authors discussed fertile ground for discussion and will discover the depth, diversity, and long-standing presence of Latinos/as and their literature in the United States.

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    1.010,95 kr.

    A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth centuryWritten by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as they shed light on well-known writers. This volume situates nineteenth-century Latino intellectuals and writers within crucial national, hemispheric, and regional debates. The Latino Nineteenth Century offers a long-overdue corrective to the Anglophone and nation-based emphasis of American literary history. Contributors track Latino/a lives and writing through routes that span Philadelphia to San Francisco and roots that extend deeply into Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South Americas, and Spain. Readers will find in the rich heterogeneity of texts and authors discussed fertile ground for discussion and will discover the depth, diversity, and long-standing presence of Latinos/as and their literature in the United States.

  • - Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands
    af Robert Lawrence Gunn
    365,95 - 998,95 kr.

  • - A Novel of the Haitian Revolution
    af Emeric Bergeaud & Christen Mucher
    398,95 - 1.163,95 kr.

  • - Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
    af Jasmine Nichole Cobb
    346,95 - 998,95 kr.

    "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.

  • - Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization
    af Hsuan L. Hsu
    346,95 - 1.168,95 kr.

    Perhaps the most popular of all canonical American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize American formations of race and empire. Drawing on legal scholarship, comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, this book engages with Twain's best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn.

  • - Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
     
    367,95 kr.

    Presents some of the emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the "long" nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, this book responds to critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field.

  • - Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
     
    1.002,95 kr.

    Presents some of the emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the "long" nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, this book responds to critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field.

  • - Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
    af Nihad Farooq
    368,95 - 1.000,95 kr.

  • - Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America
    af Andrew Lyndon Knighton
    364,95 - 998,95 kr.

    The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity. This book documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production.

  • - Law and the Labors of Emancipation
    af Hoang Gia Phan
    347,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    Illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labour ideology in American culture

  • - Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America
    af Peter Coviello
    343,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    Provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in nineteenth-century America before it solidified into the sexuality we know

  • - Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary
    af Jacob Rama Berman
    346,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    Examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture

  • - Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
    af Robin Bernstein
    368,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    Shows how the concepts of childhood innocence fundamentally shaped the history of race in the US

  • - The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
    af James B. Salazar
    366,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    Charts the development of the concept of "character" in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century

  • - The Making of an American Metaphor
    af Elizabeth Young
    369,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    Tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics

  • - U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
    af Gretchen Murphy
    365,95 - 1.143,95 kr.

    During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man's Burden". This title creates a fresh historical frame for understanding race and literature in America. It maintains that literature symptomized and channelled anxiety about the racial components of the US world mission.

  • - Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
    af Edlie L. Wong
    369,95 - 1.003,95 kr.

  • - Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
    af Edlie L. Wong
    369,95 - 976,95 kr.

    Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. This book draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism.

  • - Architecture, Race, and American Literature
    af William A. Gleason
    348,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through domestic architecture.

  • - Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
    af Kyla Wazana Tompkins
    371,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. This is the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption.

  • - Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution
    af Jeremy Matthew Glick
    367,95 - 1.003,95 kr.

    "Also available as an ebook" -- Verso title page.

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