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Author:   John D. Kerkering (Loyola University, Chicago)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9781108841894

ISBN 10:   1108841899
Pages:   403
Publication Date:   13 March 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: politics and literary history John D. Kerkering; Part I. Concepts: 1. The liberal tradition and slavery Arthur Riss; 2. Conservatism: tradition, hierarchy, and fictions of social change Edward Whitley; 3. The literature of radicalism J. Michelle Coghlan; 4. Nationalism: character, identity, and hyphenated selfhood John D. Kerkering; 5. Communitarianism and its literary contexts David Faflik; 6. Constructing sovereignty through legal and religious discourses Rochelle Zuck; 7. Religious reestablishment from pulpit to page Ashley Reed; 8. Competing views of partisanship and factionalism Sandra Gustafson; Part II. Issues: 9. Slavery: African American vigilance in slave narratives of the 1820s and 1830s Kelly Ross; 10. Disfranchisement, segregation, and the rise of African American literature Kenneth Warren; 11. Immigration: 'the Chinese question' in economics, law, and literature Spencer Tricker; 12. Territoriality: the possessive logics of American placemaking Kathryn Walkiewicz; 13. Voting rights: 'the most salient and peculiar point in our social life' Leslie Petty; 14. Defining and defying a woman's sphere Monika Elbert; 15. Beyond the custom of the country: rural scarcity and indigenous survivance John Funchion; Part III. Genres: 16. Political poetics: intercrossing discourses and American belonging Shira Woloski; 17. Staging debate in American drama: cheeses and politics and pigs Heather Nathans; 18. The evolving modalities of fiction and politics Bert Emerson; 19. Oratory: persuasion in performance Angela Ray; 20. Authors on the campaign trail: 'we are politicians now' John Hay; Chronology of major works and events; Suggestions for further reading; List of contributors; Index.

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'… an excellent study.' David McAllister, Victorian Studies

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John D. Kerkering is Professor of English at Loyola University, Chicago. His first book, The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2003) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has published essays in American Literature, Studies in Romanticism, and Victorian Poetry. His latest book is Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary US Identity (2019).

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