Mapping region in early American writing / / edited by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion.

• TeilnehmendeR: Watts, Edward, 1964-; Holt, Keri,; Funchion, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Athens : : University of Georgia Press,, [2015]
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 pages) :; map

"The essays collected in Mapping Region in Early American Writing study how American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions--imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively--played in the formation of American communiti...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Bordering establishments: mapping and charting region before 1860 / Edward Watts and Keri Holt
• Section 1. Chartings : colonies and countries
• "To plant himself in with soveranity" : Welsh Indians and the early West, 1576-1812 / Edward Watts
• Reading the routes : early American nature writing and critical regionalism before the "postfrontier" / William V. Lombardi
• The "humor of the Old Southwest" and national regionality / Robert Gunn
• West Indian emancipation and the time of regionalism in the hemispheric 1850s / Martha Schoolman
• Section 2. Mappings : creating places
• The labor of regions : a comparative analysis of the economic and literary production of three southern regions in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Steven W. Thomas
• Captive in Mexico : Zebulon Pike and the new American regionalism / Andy Doolen
• On the Hudson River line : postrevolutionary regionalism, neo-Tory sympathy, and "A lady of the State of New York" / Duncan Faherty
• "I was now living in a new world" : Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and New Bedford's cosmopolitan locality / Jennifer Schell
• Section 3. Countermappings : new spaces in old places
• Tribal Christianity : the second Great Awakening and William Apess's backwoods Methodism / Harry Brown
• "We, too, the people" : rewriting resistance in the Cherokee Nation / Keri Holt
• African American literature of the Gold Rush / Janet Neary and Hollis Robbins
• Postscript: Creole adjudication : governing New Orleans and regional provisionality in the long nineteenth century / John Funchion.