Mapping Region in Early American Writing
. Ed(S): Watts, Edward; Holt, Keri; Funchion, John
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hardcover. Editor(s): Watts, Edward; Holt, Keri; Funchion, John. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black & white photograph, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions—imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively—played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole, they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how diverse populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying the American landscape.
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Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions—imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively—played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole, they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how diverse populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying the American landscape.
Focusing on place-specific, local writing published before ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820348223
SKU
V9780820348223
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About . Ed(S): Watts, Edward; Holt, Keri; Funchion, John
Edward Watts is professor of Englishat Michigan State University. Keri Holt is associate professor ofEnglish at Utah State University. John Funchion is assistant professor of English and American Studies at theUniversity of Miami.
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