Mapping Region in Early American Writing
Edward Watts, "Mapping Region in Early American Writing"
English | ISBN: 0820348228 | 2015 | 320 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0820348228 | 2015 | 320 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions―imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively―played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole, they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how diverse populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying the American landscape.
Focusing on place-specific, local writing published before 1860,
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