Liminal whiteness in early US fiction / Hannah Lauren Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Hannah Lauren, author.

Series:

Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

White people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A NOTE ON LANGUAGE

INTRODUCTION: INEXPLICABLE VOICES – LIMINAL WHITENESS IN THE EARLY UNITED STATES

1 ‘A SHRIEK SO TERRIBLE!’: CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN’S SENSATIONAL VENTRILOQUISTS

2 ‘THIS IS A STORY-TELLING AGE’: SPECTRAL NOSTALGIA IN BRACEBRIDGE HALL

3 ‘WHAT HAD BECOME OF ME?’: SHEPPARD LEE’S BLACKFACE TRANSFORMATION

4 ‘I SAY TO YOU THAT I AM DEAD!’: EDGAR ALLAN POE’S PROTESTING CADAVERS

5 ‘HOW CAN I SPEAK TO THEE?’: HERMAN MELVILLE’S MUTED VOICE

6 ‘I’M MAKING A WHITE MAN OF HIM’: MAKING AND BREAKING WHITENESS IN THE GARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS

CODA: THE RESURRECTION OF WHITENESS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-8176-0

1-3995-0194-1

1-4744-8175-2

OCLC:

1252420533