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Writing and America

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Writing and America book

Writing and America

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Writing and America book

ByGavin Cologne-Brookes, Neil Sammells, David Timms
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1996
eBook Published 1 July 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315504377
Pages 320 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315504377
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Cologne-Brookes, G., Sammells, N., Timms, D. (1996). Writing and America. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315504377

Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a framework for discussions on topics such as colonial notions of America as the promised land, the discourses of nationhood in the republic, the sense of nationhood in American historiography, and the formation of the American Canon. Draws upon extracts from the American Bills of Rights and the Constitution as examples of different types of writing.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |27 pages

Writing and America: an introduction

WithGavin Cologne-Brookes

part I|220 pages

Part I

chapter 1|21 pages

American constitutions and literary traditions

WithChristopher Mulvey

chapter 2|23 pages

Writing out of Communism: recantation memoirs of the Cold War

WithDavid Seed

chapter 3|16 pages

‘A sense of the ludicrous’: women and humour in American literature

WithRegina Barreca

chapter 4|18 pages

The two narratives of the Western

WithAntony Easthope

chapter 5|26 pages

Narratives of the Native American

WithRobert Burchell

chapter 6|41 pages

African American song in New Orleans: the voice of the people

WithMary Ellison

chapter 7|19 pages

Writing history: Frederick Jackson Turner and the deconstruction of American history

WithAlun Munslow

chapter 8|21 pages

Hawthorne, James and history

WithDavid Timms

chapter 9|17 pages

Revisioning the American landscape: from Utopia to eco-critique

WithRenee Slater, Kate Fullbrook

chapter 10|16 pages

William Carlos Williams and the reconstruction of America

WithLes Arnold

part II|43 pages

PART II Selected Documents

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