The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance

by Ezra Tawil

Book Overview

The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521865395
• ISBN13: 9780521865395
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"