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The making of racial sentiment : slavery and the birth of the frontier romance / Ezra Tawil.
Van Pelt Library PS374.R32 T39 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tawil, Ezra F., 1967-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 151.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Race in literature.
- Emotions in literature.
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
- Indians in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cooper, James Fenimore.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- The politics of slavery and the discourse of race, 1787-1840
- Remaking natural rights : race and slavery in James Fenimore Cooper's early writings
- Domestic frontier romance, or, how the sentimental heroine became white
- Homely legends : the uses of sentiment in Cooper's The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
- Stowe's vanishing Americans : "negro" interiority, captivity, and homecoming in Uncle Tom's cabin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521865395
- OCLC:
- 63274883
- Publisher Number:
- 9780521865395
- Online:
- Publisher description
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