Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

✍ Scribed by Lloyd Pratt

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction. Written to the Future
Chapter 1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity
Chapter 2. ‘‘A Magnificent Fragment’’: Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance
Chapter 3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism
Chapter 4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing
Epilogue. The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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