The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910
Title | The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910 PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hebard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110702806X |
The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.
The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885?1910
Title | The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885?1910 PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hebard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9781139842792 |
The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.
The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885–1910
Title | The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885–1910 PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hebard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2012-12-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 113985187X |
During the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin tropes that have become synonymous with American exceptionalism today. In this book, Andrew Hebard challenges the notion of sovereignty as a 'state of exception' in American jurisprudence and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Hebard explores how literary trends such as romance and realism helped conventionalize, and thereby sanction, the federal government's use of sovereignty in a range of foreign and domestic policy matters, including the regulation of overseas colonies, immigration, Native American lands, and extra-legal violence in the American South. Weaving historiography with close readings of Mark Twain, the Western, and other hallmarks of Progressive Era literature, Hebard's study offers a new cultural context for understanding the legal history of race relations in the United States.
African American Review
Title | African American Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | African American arts |
ISBN |
The Arizona Quarterly
Title | The Arizona Quarterly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
American Doctoral Dissertations
Title | American Doctoral Dissertations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 848 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Dissertation abstracts |
ISBN |
Environmental Practice and Early American Literature
Title | Environmental Practice and Early American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ziser |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2013-07-29 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1107005434 |
This text rethinks American literary history by focusing on the non-human, environmental agents that have shaped its development.