Mapping region in early American writing /
"The essays collected in Mapping Region in Early American Writing study how American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions--imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively--played in the formation of American communiti...
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2015]
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書本目錄:
- Introduction: Bordering establishments: mapping and charting region before 1860 / Edward Watts and Keri Holt
- Section 1. Chartings : colonies and countries
- "To plant himself in with soveranity" : Welsh Indians and the early West, 1576-1812 / Edward Watts
- Reading the routes : early American nature writing and critical regionalism before the "postfrontier" / William V. Lombardi
- The "humor of the Old Southwest" and national regionality / Robert Gunn
- West Indian emancipation and the time of regionalism in the hemispheric 1850s / Martha Schoolman
- Section 2. Mappings : creating places
- The labor of regions : a comparative analysis of the economic and literary production of three southern regions in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Steven W. Thomas
- Captive in Mexico : Zebulon Pike and the new American regionalism / Andy Doolen
- On the Hudson River line : postrevolutionary regionalism, neo-Tory sympathy, and "A lady of the State of New York" / Duncan Faherty
- "I was now living in a new world" : Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford's cosmopolitan locality / Jennifer Schell
- Section 3. Countermappings : new spaces in old places
- Tribal Christianity : the second Great Awakening and William Apess's backwoods Methodism / Harry Brown
- "We, too, the people" : rewriting resistance in the Cherokee Nation / Keri Holt
- African American literature of the Gold Rush / Janet Neary and Hollis Robbins
- Postscript: Creole adjudication : governing New Orleans and regional provisionality in the long nineteenth century / John Funchion.