This book offers new perspectives on race and transnationalism in nineteenth-century American literary studies, and ranges widely in developing new approaches to canonical and non canonical authors. It will appeal to graduates and scholars working on nineteenth-century American literature, transnationalism, and African American literary studies.
The book also provides a compelling critical frame for understanding developments in American literary studies over the past twenty-five years"--
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The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
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What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature? This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature.
Yet this book argues that transnational forces have fundamentally shaped visions of racial difference and ideas of race and national belonging throughout the Americas, from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Ann Douglas's The Feminization of American Culture (1977) and Jane Tompkins's Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790– 1860 (1986) are two groundbreaking feminist recovery projects on the role of early American ...
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