Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845

by Jared Gardner and Professor Jared Gardner

Book Overview

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

While it is well known that American writers of the early national period were preoccupied with differentiating their work from European models, Jared Gardner argues that the national literature of the United States was equally motivated by the desire to differentiate white Americans from blacks and Indians. Early American writers were drawn to fantasies of an American race,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801865387
• ISBN13: 9780801865381
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"