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History, abolition, and the ever-present now in Antebellum American writing / Jeffrey Insko.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Insko, Jeffrey, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in American literary history.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in American literary history
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Authors, American--19th century.
- Authors, American.
- Politics and literature--United States.
- Politics and literature.
- History in literature.
- Politics in literature.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This volume examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the living present
- Part II. Deformations of history
- Diedrich Knickerbocker, regular bred historian
- Unhistorical fictions: Sedgwick and Neal
- Part II. Reformations of the present
- Emerson's strong present tense
- Frederick Douglass's historical turn
- Israel Potter; or, hither and thither history
- Coda: #StayWoke.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-255965-6
- 0-19-186428-5
- 0-19-255964-8
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