@article{347661,
      recid = {347661},
      author = {Pratt, Lloyd,},
      title = {Archives of American time : literature and modernity in  the nineteenth century /},
      publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press,},
      address = {Philadelphia :},
      pages = {252 p. :},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {This book examines American literature's figures and forms  to disclose the competing temporalities that in fact  defined the antebellum period. Through discussions that  link literature's essential qualities to social theories of  modernity, Lloyd Pratt asserts that the competition between  these varied temporalities forestalled the consolidation of  nation and racial identity.--[book jacket]},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/347661},
}