Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction / / Hannah Lauren Murray.
An in-depth examination of liminality and race in early US fictionOffers a Critical Whiteness study of early US fiction with innovative readings of canonical and lesser-known textsBrings together fiction and multiple discourses on White racial identity in the early US: natural history, medical scien...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture : I19CALC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE
- INTRODUCTION: INEXPLICABLE VOICES – LIMINAL WHITENESS IN THE EARLY UNITED STATES
- 1 ‘A SHRIEK SO TERRIBLE!’: CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN’S SENSATIONAL VENTRILOQUISTS
- 2 ‘THIS IS A STORY-TELLING AGE’: SPECTRAL NOSTALGIA IN BRACEBRIDGE HALL
- 3 ‘WHAT HAD BECOME OF ME?’: SHEPPARD LEE’S BLACKFACE TRANSFORMATION
- 4 ‘I SAY TO YOU THAT I AM DEAD!’: EDGAR ALLAN POE’S PROTESTING CADAVERS
- 5 ‘HOW CAN I SPEAK TO THEE?’: HERMAN MELVILLE’S MUTED VOICE
- 6 ‘I’M MAKING A WHITE MAN OF HIM’: MAKING AND BREAKING WHITENESS IN THE GARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS
- CODA: THE RESURRECTION OF WHITENESS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX