Hannah Lauren Murray

Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation. In a Critical Whiteness reading of canonical and lesser-known texts from Charles Brockden Brown to Frank J. Webb, Murray argues that White characters on the border between life and death were liminal presences that disturbed prescriptions of racial belonging in the early US. Fears of losing Whiteness were routinely channelled through the language of liminality, in a precursor to today's White anxieties of marginalisation and minoritisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474481755
• Artikelnr.: 72288256

Autorenporträt

Hannah Lauren Murray is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Liverpool. Her research centres on race and citizenship in nineteenth-century American literature, with a specific focus on speculative genres. She has previously published in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (2020), The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown (Oxford UP, 2019) and the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (2017) and she sits on the steering committee for the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
A Note on Language
Introduction: Inexplicable Voices: Liminal Whiteness in the Early United States
1. 'A shriek so terrible!': Charles Brockden Brown's Sensational Ventriloquists
2. 'This is a story-telling age': Spectral Nostalgia in Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall
3. 'What had become of me?': Sheppard Lee's Blackface Transformation
4. 'I say to you that I am dead!': Edgar Allan Poe's Protesting Cadavers
5. 'How can I speak to thee?': Herman Melville's Muted Voice
6. 'I'm making a white man of him': Making and Breaking Whiteness in The Garies and their Friends
Coda: The Resurrection of Whiteness
Bibliography
Index.