Xenotopia: Death and Displacement in the Landscape of Nineteenth-Century American Authorship
Description:
This dissertation is an examination of the interiority of American authorship from 1815–1866, an era of political, social, and economic instability in the United States. Without a well-defined historical narrative or an established literary lineage, writers drew upon death and the American landscape as tropes of unity and identification in an effort to define the nation and its literary future. Instead of representing nationalism or collectivism, however, the authors in this study drew on lands…
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Date:
December 2017
Creator:
Lewis, Darcy Hudelson
Partner:
UNT Libraries