"Mapping Region in Early American Writing" is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole, they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how diverse populations imagined...
"Mapping Region in Early American Writing" is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. Th...
Examines how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions - imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively - played in the formation of American communities. More than simply offering a prehistory of regionalist writing, these essays offer new ways of theorizing and studying regional spaces in the United States.
Examines how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions - imagined politically...
