The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

John D. (Loyola University, Chicago) Kerkering

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Examining the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, Kerkering tells the story of how poetry helped define America as a nation before helping to define America into distinct racial categories. Through formal literary effects, national and racial identities become related elements of a single literary history.

ISBN-13
9780521120968
ISBN-10
0521120969
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
Publication date
2009-08-27
Pages
368
Dimensions
229x152x21
Weight
540