The Making of Racial Sentiment
Subtitle: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521865395
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Emotions in literature; Literary Criticism; English; USA; Race in literature; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American fiction; 19th century; History and criticism
First sentence: Scholars have long puzzled over Thomas Jefferson's celebrated "ambivalence" about the politics of slavery.