Archives of American time : literature and modernity in the nineteenth century / Lloyd Pratt

Author: Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Copyright Date: ©2010
Physical Description: 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction. Written to the Future -- 1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity -- 2. "A Magnificent Fragment": Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance -- 3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism -- 4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing -- Epilogue: The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom.

Subject(s)

American literature—19th century—History and criticism
Time in literature
Time—Social aspects—United States—History—19th century
Group identity—United States—History—19th century
Modernism (Literature)—United States
National characteristics, American, in literature

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9780812242089 (alk. paper)
0812242084 (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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