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American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900
Brückner, Martin ; Hsu, Hsuan L. (Author)
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University of Delaware Press
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American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900 - Brückner, Martin ; Hsu, Hsuan L.
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Synopsis "American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900"
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores intersections between geography and American literary history from the earliest geographic chronicles of the New World to the massive geopolitical imaginings of the 1890s. By foregrounding the unsteady nature of geographical boundaries, the physical and imaginary migrations that coexisted with literary nationalism, and the changing attitudes toward geographical settings, the essays in American Literary Geographies present textual, theoretical, and contextual alternatives to existing exceptionalist accounts of U.S. culture. Beginning with studies of the establishment of names, borders, and jurisdictions, the collection builds toward materialist readings of literary settings illuminated by maps, surveying tracts, travelogues, sailors' epitaphs, and various forms of racialized or gendered mobility. The focus on the literary and geographical discourse addresses more than social and political developments like imperialism, regionalism, and tourism; rather, this volume seeks to supplement literary histories by emphasizing spatial over temporal strategies as the organizing principle for telling the story of American literature.
