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Mapping region in early American writing
Title
Mapping region in early American writing / edited by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion.
ISBN
9780820348223 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9780820348230 (e-book)
Publication
Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Physical Description
1 online resource (321 pages) : map
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Summary
"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 communities, both real and imagined. The texts they study--some canonical, others archival, some literary, others scientific, polemical, or documentary--create and reveal important mental mappings and cartographies that reveal how a diversity of populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying various places in the American landscape"--Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Print version: Mapping region in early American writing. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 03, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.
Contents
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.
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