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Author:

Tawil, Ezra F., 1967-

Title:

The making of racial sentiment : slavery and the birth of the frontier romance / Ezra Tawil.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

ix, 244 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cooper, James Fenimore,--1789-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-1896--Criticism and interpretation.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Indians in literature.
Slavery in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The politics of slavery and the discourse of race, 1787-1840 -- Remaking natural rights : race and slavery in James Fenimore Cooper's early writings -- Domestic frontier romance, or, how the sentimental heroine became white -- Homely legends : the uses of sentiment in Cooper's The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish -- Stowe's vanishing Americans : "negro" interiority, captivity, and homecoming in Uncle Tom's cabin.

Series:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 151

ISBN:

9780521865395
9780521865395 (hbk.)
0521865395 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)63274883
(OCoLC)70174027

LCCN:

2005036008

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)