The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian conflict provided authors and readers with an apt analogy for the problem of slavery. By uncovering the sentimental aspects of the frontier romance, Tawil redraws the lines of influence between the 'Indian novel' of the 1820s and the sentimental novel of slavery,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521073049
ISBN13:9780521073042
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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