More Details

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Written to the future
• Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity
• "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance
• Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism
• The deprivation of time in African American life writing
• Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.

Author/Creator:

Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Archives of American time: literature and modernity in the nineteenth century [by Pratt, L.]

Subjects:

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

1800-1899

Time — Social aspects

Time

Group identity

Modernism (Literature)

American literature

United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PS217.T56 P73 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780812242089 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780812203530 (e-book) [Invalid]
0812242084 (alk. paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009023627 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

794700577

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3441752 (source: MiAaPQ)
EBL3441752 (source: Au-PeEL)
ebr10641587 (source: CaPaEBR)
MIL421165 (source: CaONFJC)