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As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily.

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Engaging and intriguing. -- Susan Kurjiaka American Literature This insightful volume complements the numerous critical studies that have shown how U.S. authors before the Civil War wished to create a literature different from European models. Gardner persuasively argues that many writers attempted to invent a national identity by defining 'American' in racial terms. Choice

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1. The History of White Negroes
Chapter 2. The Prodigal in Chains
Chapter 3. Edgar Huntly's Savage Awakening
Chapter 4. Cooper's Vanishing American Act
Chapter 5. Poe's "Incredible Adventures and Discoveries Still Farther South"
Chapter 6. Douglass and the Rewriting of American Race
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Master Plots Race and the Founding of an American

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 23/02/2001
      ISBN13: 9780801865381, 978-0801865381
      ISBN10: 0801865387

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      As early nationalist writers wrestled with the question, they proved how hard a question it is to answer and how great are the dangers in scripting its answers too easily.

      Trade Review
      Engaging and intriguing. -- Susan Kurjiaka American Literature This insightful volume complements the numerous critical studies that have shown how U.S. authors before the Civil War wished to create a literature different from European models. Gardner persuasively argues that many writers attempted to invent a national identity by defining 'American' in racial terms. Choice

      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations
      Preface
      Chapter 1. The History of White Negroes
      Chapter 2. The Prodigal in Chains
      Chapter 3. Edgar Huntly's Savage Awakening
      Chapter 4. Cooper's Vanishing American Act
      Chapter 5. Poe's "Incredible Adventures and Discoveries Still Farther South"
      Chapter 6. Douglass and the Rewriting of American Race
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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