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03881aam a2200433 i 4500 001 EACEB6206B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150313s2015 gaub b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2015005757 020 $a 0820348228 020 $a 9780820348223 035 $a (OCoLC)905667942 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d COO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS186 .M28 2015 245 00 $a Mapping region in early American writing / $c edited by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion. 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2015]. 300 $a vii, 310 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 2 $a "The essays collected in Mapping Region in Early American Writing study how 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. The texts they study--some canonical, others archival, some literary, others scientific, polemical, or documentary--create and reveal important mental mappings and cartographies that reveal how a diversity of populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying various places in the American landscape"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Mappings and chartings : writing region in America before 1860 / Edward Watts and Keri Holt -- Section 1. Chartings : colonies and countries -- "To plant himself in with soveranity" : Welsh Indians and the early West, 1576-1812 / Edward Watts -- Reading the routes : early American nature writing and critical regionalism before the "postfrontier" / William V. Lombardi -- The "humor of the Old Southwest" and national regionality / Robert Gunn -- West Indian emancipation and the time of regionalism in the hemispheric 1850s / Martha Schoolman -- Section 2. Mappings : creating places -- The labor of regions : a comparative analysis of the economic and literary production of three southern regions in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Steven W. Thomas -- Captive in Mexico : Zebulon Pike and the new American regionalism / Andy Doolen -- On the Hudson River line : postrevolutionary regionalism, neo-Tory sympathy, and "A lady of the State of New York" / Duncan Faherty -- "I was now living in a new world" : Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford's cosmopolitan locality / Jennifer Schell -- Section 3. Countermappings : new spaces in old places -- Tribal Christianity : the second Great Awakening and William Apess's backwoods Methodism / Harry Brown -- "We, too, the people" : rewriting resistance in the Cherokee Nation / Keri Holt -- African American literature of the Gold Rush / Janet Neary and Hollis Robbins -- Postscript: Creole adjudication : governing New Orleans and regional provisionality in the long nineteenth century / John Funchion. 650 0 $a American literature $y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 1783-1850 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Regionalism in literature. 650 0 $a Space perception in literature. 650 0 $a Landscapes in literature. 650 0 $a Geographical perception in literature. 650 0 $a Community life in literature. 700 1 $a Watts, Edward, $d 1964- $e editor. 700 1 $a Holt, Keri, $e editor. 700 1 $a Funchion, John, $e editor. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180116050353.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826041833.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EACEB6206B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search