Archives of American time : literature and modernity in the nineteenth century / Lloyd Pratt.
2010
PS217.T56 P73 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Archives of American time : literature and modernity in the nineteenth century / Lloyd Pratt.
Author
Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-
ISBN
9780812242089 (alk. paper)
0812242084 (alk. paper)
0812242084 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS217.T56 P73 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/33
Summary
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]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Written to the future
Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity
"A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance
Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism
The deprivation of time in African American life writing
Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.
Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity
"A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance
Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism
The deprivation of time in African American life writing
Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.