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The making of racial sentiment : slavery and the birth of the frontier romance / Ezra Tawil.

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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

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