The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance

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Cambridge University Press, 2006. gada 20. jūl. - 256 lappuses
The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. The novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick and others described the 'races' in terms of emotional rather than physical characteristics. By doing so they produced the idea of 'racial sentiment': the notion that different races feel different things, and feel things differently. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian conflict provided authors and readers with an apt analogy for the problem of slavery. By.

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Ezra F. Tawil is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University.

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