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Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down

Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down American Literature Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Lydia Maria Child, prolific authors of renown (in several genres) played more ‘‘formative’’ roles than Tyler and his Algerine Captive (1797). Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827) with its depiction of interracial marriage is not mentioned; Child’s Hobomok (1824) is noted, but her early Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833), which speaks to these very issues of race and national identity, is not. Because ‘‘the literary history of the intersections between race and nation in antebellum America has important resonances for contemporary debates about national identity’’ (11) and, as Gardner writes, there is ‘‘a complicated set of American fears about the power of narrative prose to effect rather remarkable changes’’ (22), the study is valuable, especially as a history of—and a reminder to continue debating—these complicated issues of race, literature, nationalism, and identity that were birthed with the nation itself. Discussion of patriarchal influences should be added to the intersections of racial, nationalistic, and political foundations (and concerns) of American literature, but meanwhile, this volume offers a well-documented and lively reassessment of these issues without descending into jargon or repetition. Susan Kurjiaka, Florida Atlantic University Transcendental Wordplay: America’s Romantic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Literature Duke University Press

Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down

Cook, Nancy
American Literature , Volume 73 (3) – Sep 1, 2001
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press
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0002-9831
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1527-2117
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10.1215/00029831-73-3-667
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American Literature Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Lydia Maria Child, prolific authors of renown (in several genres) played more ‘‘formative’’ roles than Tyler and his Algerine Captive (1797). Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827) with its depiction of interracial marriage is not mentioned; Child’s Hobomok (1824) is noted, but her early Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833), which speaks to these very issues of race and national identity, is not. Because ‘‘the literary history of the intersections between race and nation in antebellum America has important resonances for contemporary debates about national identity’’ (11) and, as Gardner writes, there is ‘‘a complicated set of American fears about the power of narrative prose to effect rather remarkable changes’’ (22), the study is valuable, especially as a history of—and a reminder to continue debating—these complicated issues of race, literature, nationalism, and identity that were birthed with the nation itself. Discussion of patriarchal influences should be added to the intersections of racial, nationalistic, and political foundations (and concerns) of American literature, but meanwhile, this volume offers a well-documented and lively reassessment of these issues without descending into jargon or repetition. Susan Kurjiaka, Florida Atlantic University Transcendental Wordplay: America’s Romantic

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American Literature – Duke University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2001

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