Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865

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The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and sectional strife. Canonical writers such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as those more recently acclaimed, such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, emerged amidst literature devoted to questions of nationalism, exploration, empire, the frontier, and slavery...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1578068630

ISBN13:9781578068630

Release Date:April 2006

Publisher:University Press of Mississippi

Length:254 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.5" x 8.9"

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