Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865 / Eric J. Sundquist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sundquist, Eric J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Slavery in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Indians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and sectional strife. Canonical writers such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as those more recently acclaimed, such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, emerged amidst literature devoted to questions of nationalism, exploration, empire, the frontier, and slavery. This outpouring included some of the most important early works in African American, American Indian, and Chicana/Chicano literature. Empire

Contents:

The land of promise

Exploration and empire

To muse on nations passed away

The frontier and American Indians

No more auction block for me

The literature of slavery and African American culture.

Notes:

Originally published as: The Cambridge history of American literature, volume 2, 1820-1865. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994-<2004>.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-91733-1

9786612917332

1-60473-614-3

OCLC:

688317409