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Paperback The Sacred Game: Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860 Book
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ISBN: 0521090008

ISBN13: 9780521090001

The Sacred Game: Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

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This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in the expressions of writers before the Civil War certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain perceptions of displacement and decline, so profoundly characteristic as to amount to a defining trait of American literature. As a frontier nation, America lacked an organic culture of its own and...

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