TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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]
AU  - Pratt, Lloyd,
CN  - PS217.T56
CN  - PS217.T56
CY  - Philadelphia :
DA  - c2010.
ID  - 347661
KW  - American literature
KW  - Time in literature.
KW  - Time
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature.
N2  - 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]
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press,
PP  - Philadelphia :
PY  - c2010.
SN  - 9780812242089 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0812242084 (alk. paper)
T1  - Archives of American time :literature and modernity in the nineteenth century /
TI  - Archives of American time :literature and modernity in the nineteenth century /
ER  -