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Book SynopsisTracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the twentieth century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address.
Trade ReviewA major achievement… With a rich archive extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth-- at once regional, national, and global-- this is cultural history at its most capacious and compelling. -- Wai Chee Dimock, author of
Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep TimeThis is one of the most insightful works of Southern literary and intellectual history of the past two decades-- and its significance transcends the U.S. South. -- Fred Hobson, Professor of English and Lineberger Professor of Humanities, University of North Carolina
Impressive in its scope, scale, and originality of construction,
Our South offers a new interpretation of the literature of the South within the literary and political history of the United States. A major work. -- Jonathan Arac, author of
The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860Wonderfully provocative, very original, deeply learned, [this] book could well change the way scholars approach US culture in the nineteenth century. -- John Stauffer, author of
The Black Hearts of Men
