Jeffrey Insko

History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780192871435
• ISBN-10: 0192871439
• Artikelnr.: 66149028

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Insko is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century US literature and culture. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, Early American Literature, and ESQ.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. De-formations of History
Chapter 1 Diedrich Knickerbocker, Regular Bred Historian
Chapter 2 Unhistorical Fictions: Sedgwick and Neal
Part II. Reformations of the Present
Chapter 3 Emerson's Strong Present Tense
Chapter 4 Frederick Douglass's Historical Turn
Chapter 5 Israel Potter; or, Hither and Thither History