| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation -- The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly -- Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture -- Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers -- Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno" -- Blackface violence and the early African American novel -- Epilogue: absorbing mimesis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 20, 2017) |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Race in literature.
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Minorities in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Minorities in literature
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Race in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813940649 |
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0813940648 |
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9780813940656 |
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0813940656 |
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