Philadelphia stories :: America's literature of race and freedom /

Samuel Otter's authoritative study considers the significance of geographical, social, and literary "place." It offers a model for thinking about the relationships between literature and history and among European American and African American writers. It challenges conventional narra...

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Main Author: Otter, Samuel, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:Samuel Otter's authoritative study considers the significance of geographical, social, and literary "place." It offers a model for thinking about the relationships between literature and history and among European American and African American writers. It challenges conventional narratives of American literary history. And finally, it establishes Philadelphia as fundamental to our understanding of not only the political but also the imaginative life of nineteenth-century America.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 396 : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199741939
019974193X

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