Archives of American Time : : Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century /

Archives of American Time : : Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century / / Lloyd Pratt.

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American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse populat...

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Pratt, Lloyd,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 6 illus
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Written to the Future
  • Chapter 1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity
  • Chapter 2. ''A Magnificent Fragment'': Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance
  • Chapter 3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism
  • Chapter 4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing
  • Epilogue. The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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