Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

ISBN-13: 9780521197069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 270 str.

Hsuan L. Hsu

Opis

This 2010 book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction: scales of identification; 1. Democratic expansionism, gothic geographies, and Charles Brockden Brown; 2. Urban apartments, global cities: the enlargement of private space in Poe and James; 3. Cultural orphans: domesticity, missionaries, and China from Stowe to Sui Sin Far; 4. 'The Checkered Globe': cosmopolitan despair in the American Pacific; 5. Literature and regional production; Epilogue: scales of resistance.