Lloyd Pratt

Archives of American Time

Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Lloyd Pratt is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford. He is author of The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780812223729
• ISBN-10: 0812223721
• Artikelnr.: 44826715

Autorenporträt

Lloyd Pratt is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford. He is author of The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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