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The making of racial sentiment : slavery and the birth of the frontier romance / Ezra Tawil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tawil, Ezra F., 1967- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 151.
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 151
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cooper, James Fenimore.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. The novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick and others described the 'races' in terms of emotional rather than physical characteristics. By doing so they produced the idea of 'racial sentiment': the notion that different races feel different things, and feel things differently. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian conflict provided authors and readers with an apt analogy for the problem of slavery. By uncovering the sentimental aspects of the frontier romance, Tawil redraws the lines of influence between the 'Indian novel' of the 1820s and the sentimental novel of slavery, demonstrating how Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ought to be reconsidered in this light. This study reveals how American literature of the 1820s helped form modern ideas about racial differences.
- 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:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-16987-9
- 1-280-56775-9
- 0-511-24187-9
- 0-511-24085-6
- 0-511-24203-4
- 0-511-31808-1
- 0-511-48567-0
- 0-511-24137-2
- OCLC:
- 252527432
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