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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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2006
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
| Ver en 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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
