A History of American Literature
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 167 the literacy of the narrator, and by implication the immediacy and authenticity of his or her ...
168 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 Hannah and her companion in flight is, it turns out, a place where “it is said a beau- tiful y ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 169 fact: a fascinating literary hybrid and elaborate artifice that exposes the real nature of lif ...
170 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 in the home of the Bellmonts, where she becomes an indentured servant and is treated cruelly b ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 171 toil and white indifference and spite. Wilson’s book is all of these generic forms, and it is ...
172 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 so in her first essay on the subject, titled “Immediate Emancipation” and published in 1845. A ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 173 instance, he makes what is called “his declaration of independence:” he is “a free man” by nat ...
174 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 book. Slavery is shown to be a violation of the American principle of freedom and the higher l ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 175 revolution is the principal subject and aim of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; and that project is specific ...
176 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 1852 novel. Then, in 1856, she published Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp. This, her second st ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 177 thought, or of anyone or any movement that claimed to have solved the mystery and resolved the ...
178 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 the past, the problem of inherited guilt overshadowing the present, was to become a major them ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 179 include some of his best pieces, such as “The Maypole of Merrymount,” “Endicott and the Red Cr ...
180 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 territory, somewhere between the real world and fairyland, where the Actual and the Imaginary ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 181 clearing and the wilderness, life conducted inside the social domain and life pursued outside ...
182 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 Knowledge of evil, after all, and of her origins, is the means by which Pearl eventually cease ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 183 to his publisher, when he was asked for some stories, “that Mr. Hawthorne’s brain is addled at ...
184 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 also suspected that there was no message to be heard – that, as one of his narrators put it on ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 185 deeper issues, he had to wed meaning to action, to twine them together so closely that they be ...
186 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 and death of many, including a hero who appears to exist somehow both above and below ordinary ...
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