The making of racial sentiment : slavery and the birth of the frontier romance

The making of racial sentiment slavery and the birth of the frontier romance

The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. The novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick and others described the 'races' in terms of emotiona...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tawil, Ezra F., 1967- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2006
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 151
Subjects:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher > 1811-1896 > Crítica e interpretación.
Cooper, James Fenimore > 1789-1851 > Crítica e interpretación.
Literatura norteamericana > s. XIX > Historia y crítica.
Racismo en la literatura
Afronorteamericanos > En la literatura.
Esclavitud en la Literatura
Online Access:Sumario
See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991002297079708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of slavery and the discourse of race, 1787-1840
  • Remaking natural rights : race and slavery in James Fenimore Cooper's early writings
  • Domestic frontier romance, or, how the sentimental heroine became white
  • Homely legends : the uses of sentiment in Cooper's The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
  • Stowe's vanishing Americans : "negro" interiority, captivity, and homecoming in Uncle Tom's cabin.

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