Dislocating race & nation : episodes in nineteenth-century American literary nationalism /
Levine, Robert S.(Robert Steven),1953-
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-301) and index.
Undoings -- Charles Brockden Brown, Louisiana, and the contingencies of empire -- Circulating the nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the appeals of black literary nationalism -- Genealogical fictions: Melville and Hannah crafts in Hawthorne's house -- Frederick Douglass's hemispheric nationalism, 1857-1893 -- Undoings redux.
American literature
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and history
Nationalism and literature
American literature
Literature and society
Race relations in literature.
Black nationalism in literature.