Title History, abolition, and the ever-present now in Antebellum American writing / Jeffrey Insko

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford studies in American literary history Oxford studies in American literary history. Contents Introduction -- Part I : Deformations of history -- Diedrich Knickerbocker, regular bred historian -- Unhistorical fictions : Sedgwick and Neal -- Part II : Reformations of the present -- Emerson's strong present tense -- Frederick Douglass's historical turn -- Israel Potter; or, hither and thither history -- Coda Summary Examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 15, 2019) Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Slavery in literature. History in literature. Authors, American -- 19th century Politics and literature -- United States LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Authors, American History in literature Politics and literature Slavery in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191864285 0191864285 9780192559647 0192559648

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