The Genius of Place
The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic
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2016
University Press of New England (Verlag)
978-1-61168-884-9 (ISBN)
University Press of New England (Verlag)
978-1-61168-884-9 (ISBN)
The Genius of Place examines how, after the War of 1812, concerns about the scale of the nation resulted in a fundamental reorientation of American identity away from the Atlantic or global ties that held sway in the early republic and toward more localized forms of identification. Instead of addressing the sweep of the nation, American authors, artists, geographers, and politicians shifted from the larger reach of the globe to the more manageable scope of the local and sectional. Paradoxically, that local representation became the primary mode through which early Americans construed their emerging national identity. This newfound cultural obsession with locality impacted the literary consolidation and representation of key American imagined places-New England, the plantation, the West-in the decades between 1816 and 1836. Apap's examination of the intersections between local and national representations and exploration of the myths of space and place that shaped U.S. identity through the nineteenth century will appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary readership.
Christopher C. Apap teaches English literature at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Let Us Bind the Nation Together"
Shifting Perspectives
Sedgwick's Sectional Picturesque
The Sectional Middle Ground
The Genius of Latitude
Southern Interventions in the Wake of Crisis
Western Reorientations
Placing the Native in the Era of Removal
Walker's African American Emplacement
Coda: "Build, Therefore, Your Own World"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.03.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 11 illus. |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-61168-884-1 / 1611688841 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61168-884-9 / 9781611688849 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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