The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

ISBN: 9780521120968 出版年：2003 页码：367 John D Kerkering Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. The Poetics of National Identity: 1. 'We are five and forty': meter and national identity in Sir Walter Scott 2. 'Our sacred union', 'our beloved Apalachia': nation and genius loci in Hawthorne and Simms Part II. The Poetics of Racial Identity: 3. 'Of me and of mine': the music of racial identity 4. 'Blood will tell': literary effects and the diagnosis of racial instinct Conclusion: the conversation of identities Notes Bibliography Index.