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050 00 $aPS217.N38$bK46 2016
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100 1 $aKennedy, J. Gerald,$eauthor.
245 10 $aStrange nation :$bliterary nationalism and cultural conflict in the age of Poe /$cJ. Gerald Kennedy.
246 30 $aLiterary nationalism and cultural conflict in the age of Poe
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2016]
300 $axiii, 457 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a" After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal, immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves, Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at work behind the facade of American nation-building. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Examining work by William Wells Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Caroline Kirkland, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and others, Strange Nation investigates America's often vexed relationship with the practice of literary nationalism"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Strangeness of American Nationhood -- Chapter 1: Refiguring the Foreign: Irving, Poe, and America's "Europe" -- Chapter 2: Writing Against the Nation: Cooper's Gleanings -- Chapter 3: Patriotic Anti-Nationalism: Minority Reports from Abroad -- Chapter 4: Cleansing Actions: Rewriting the Border Wars -- Chapter 5: Removal and Remorse in Jacksonian America -- Chapter 6: National Awakening: Reconstructing the Revolution -- Chapter 7: America Against Itself: The South, Slavery, and Dissociative National Identities -- Chapter 8: The Cartography of Destiny and the Savage West -- Chapter 9: The Interpreter of National Maladies: Poe's American Turn -- Bibliography.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650 0 $aNationalism in literature.
650 0 $aSocial conflict in literature.
650 0 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIn literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
852 00 $bglx$hPS217.N38$iK46 2016