The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Andrew Hebard is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Miami University of Ohio. His work on American literature, history and culture has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, the African American Review, Law, Culture and the Humanities, and New German Critique.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: 'an empire of letters' 1. 'Like a disembodied shade': popular romances and the American imperial state 2. Styling territory: Mark Twain and the 'stupendous joke' of imperial sovereignty 3. 'Twisted from the ordinary': naturalism, sovereignty, and the conventions of Chinese exclusion 4. Acts of lawless discretion: Westerns and the Plenary Administration of Native Americans 5. Romance and riot: Charles Chesnutt and the conventions of extralegal violence in the Jim Crow South Epilogue Bibliography.
Acknowledgments Introduction: 'an empire of letters' 1. 'Like a disembodied shade': popular romances and the American imperial state 2. Styling territory: Mark Twain and the 'stupendous joke' of imperial sovereignty 3. 'Twisted from the ordinary': naturalism, sovereignty, and the conventions of Chinese exclusion 4. Acts of lawless discretion: Westerns and the Plenary Administration of Native Americans 5. Romance and riot: Charles Chesnutt and the conventions of extralegal violence in the Jim Crow South Epilogue Bibliography.
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