Archives of American time
Subtitle: literature and modernity in the nineteenth century
By: Lloyd Pratt
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780812242089
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Written to the future; title: Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity; title: "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance; title: Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism; title: The deprivation of time in African American life writing; title: Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.