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The making of racial sentiment : = slavery and the birth of the frontier romance /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The making of racial sentiment :/ Ezra Tawil.
Reminder of title:	slavery and the birth of the frontier romance /
Author:	Tawil, Ezra F.,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485671
ISBN:	9780511485671 (ebook)

The making of racial sentiment : = slavery and the birth of the frontier romance /
Tawil, Ezra F.,1967-

The making of racial sentiment :slavery and the birth of the frontier romance /Ezra Tawil. - 1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;151. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The politics of slavery and the discourse of race, 1787-1840 -- Remaking natural rights : race and slavery in James Fenimore Cooper's early writings -- Domestic frontier romance, or, how the sentimental heroine became white -- Homely legends : the uses of sentiment in Cooper's The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish -- Stowe's vanishing Americans : "negro" interiority, captivity, and homecoming in Uncle Tom's cabin.

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 uncovering the sentimental aspects of the frontier romance, Tawil redraws the lines of influence between the 'Indian novel' of the 1820s and the sentimental novel of slavery, demonstrating how Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ought to be reconsidered in this light. This study reveals how American literature of the 1820s helped form modern ideas about racial differences.

ISBN: 9780511485671 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

869887
Cooper, James Fenimore,
1789-1851--CharactersSubjects--Topical Terms:

569527
American fiction
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PS374.R32 / T39 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.3093552

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