Mapping region in early American writing / edited by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watts, Edward, 1964- editor.

Holt, Keri, editor.

Funchion, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism.

American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.

Regionalism in literature.

Space perception in literature.

Landscapes in literature.

Geographical perception in literature.

Community life in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The essays collected in Mapping Region in Early American Writing study how American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions--imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively--played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. The texts they study--some canonical, others archival, some literary, others scientific, polemical, or documentary--create and reveal important mental mappings and cartographies that reveal how a diversity of populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying various places in the American landscape"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Bordering establishments: mapping and charting region before 1860 / Edward Watts and Keri Holt

Section 1. Chartings : colonies and countries

"To plant himself in with soveranity" : Welsh Indians and the early West, 1576-1812 / Edward Watts

Reading the routes : early American nature writing and critical regionalism before the "postfrontier" / William V. Lombardi

The "humor of the Old Southwest" and national regionality / Robert Gunn

West Indian emancipation and the time of regionalism in the hemispheric 1850s / Martha Schoolman

Section 2. Mappings : creating places

The labor of regions : a comparative analysis of the economic and literary production of three southern regions in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Steven W. Thomas

Captive in Mexico : Zebulon Pike and the new American regionalism / Andy Doolen

On the Hudson River line : postrevolutionary regionalism, neo-Tory sympathy, and "A lady of the State of New York" / Duncan Faherty

"I was now living in a new world" : Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford's cosmopolitan locality / Jennifer Schell

Section 3. Countermappings : new spaces in old places

Tribal Christianity : the second Great Awakening and William Apess's backwoods Methodism / Harry Brown

"We, too, the people" : rewriting resistance in the Cherokee Nation / Keri Holt

African American literature of the Gold Rush / Janet Neary and Hollis Robbins

Postscript: Creole adjudication : governing New Orleans and regional provisionality in the long nineteenth century / John Funchion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-4823-6

OCLC:

933515893