"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...
Explores the relationship between early American literature and federalism in the early decades of the republic. Taking the federal structure of the nation as a foundational point, Keri Holt examines how popular print - including magazines, novels, and captivity narratives - encouraged citizens to accept the United States as a union of differences.
Explores the relationship between early American literature and federalism in the early decades of the republic. Taking the federal structure of the n...
