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University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period. Cover -- Contents --...
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In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period. Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Written to the Future -- 1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity -- 2. ''A Magnificent Fragment'': Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance -- 3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism -- 4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing -- Epilogue: The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Written to the Future""; ""1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity""; ""2. ''A Magnificent Fragment'': Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance""; ""3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism""; ""4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing""; ""Epilogue: The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""
