{"product_id":"our-south-9780674024281","title":"Our South","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracks 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eThrough Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003eImpressive in its scope, scale, and originality of construction, \u003ci\u003eOur South\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWonderfully provocative, very original, deeply learned, [this] book could well change the way scholars approach US culture in the nineteenth century. -- John Stauffer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Hearts of Men\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403529822551,"sku":"9780674024281","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674024281.jpg?v=1730483740","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-south-9780674024281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}