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

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"As scholars of American literature and history know, White dread has been a haunting presence for a long, long time. Anxious fantasies of replacement, subsumption, diminution: in Liminal Whiteness, Hannah Murray raises these spirits, and gets them to speak in new tongues. Across agile readings of figures from Brockden Brown, Poe and Melville to Robert Montgomery Bird and Frank Webb, Liminal Whiteness vivifies a rich literary counter-history and gives us new purchase on the shifting terrain of reactive White fantasy." -Peter Coviello, University of Illinois Chicago

Liminal Whiteness in Early Us Fiction

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 06/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9781474481748, 978-1474481748
      ISBN10: 1474481744
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

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

      Trade Review
      "As scholars of American literature and history know, White dread has been a haunting presence for a long, long time. Anxious fantasies of replacement, subsumption, diminution: in Liminal Whiteness, Hannah Murray raises these spirits, and gets them to speak in new tongues. Across agile readings of figures from Brockden Brown, Poe and Melville to Robert Montgomery Bird and Frank Webb, Liminal Whiteness vivifies a rich literary counter-history and gives us new purchase on the shifting terrain of reactive White fantasy." -Peter Coviello, University of Illinois Chicago

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