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Author:

Insko, Jeffrey author.

Title:

History, abolition, and the ever-present now in Antebellum American writing / Jeffrey Insko.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

ix, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Authors, American--19th century.
Politics and literature--United States.
History in literature.
Slavery in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-249) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the living present -- Part II. Deformations of history -- Diedrich Knickerbocker, regular bred historian -- Unhistorical fictions: Sedgwick and Neal -- Part II. Reformations of the present -- Emerson's strong present tense -- Frederick Douglass's historical turn -- Israel Potter; or, hither and thither history -- Coda: #StayWoke.

Summary:

Examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history.

Series:

Oxford studies in American literary history

ISBN:

0198825641
9780198825647

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1044552182

LCCN:

2018941695

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)