The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885?1910.

The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.

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Main Author: Hebard, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
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490 1 |a Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ;  |v v. 165 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Cover; The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910; Series; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: An Empire of Letters -- Sovereignty and American Literary Studies; "An Empire of Letters": The Politics of Literary Mode; Law and Literature in the Age of Plenary Power; Chapters; Chapter 1 "Like a Disembodied Shade": Popular Romancesand the American Imperial State; "No Middle Ground": Sovereignty between Racial Difference and Racial Uplift; Romance, Realism, and the Modes of the Imperial State. 
505 8 |a Modal Incongruity in the Popular Romance and the Imperial StateConventionalizing Contradiction: Romance, Realism, and Narrative Progression in the Popular Romance; Ordinary Violence and Extraordinary Rule; Chapter 2 Styling Territory: Mark Twain and the "StupendousJoke" of Imperial Sovereignty; The Realist and Romantic Territories of Twain's Literary Burlesque; Styling Territory as Colonial Administration; Imperial Humor; Chapter 3 "Twisted from the Ordinary": Naturalism, Sovereignty, and the Conventions of ChineseExclusion; The Naturalist Mode; Chinese Exclusion and American Sovereignty. 
505 8 |a Administrative Conventions in Jack London's the sea-wolfRecoding Sovereignty: Race War and Violence in Naturalist Fiction; Chapter 4 Acts of Lawless Discretion: Westerns and the Plenary Administration of Native Americans; "Kill the Indian to Make the Man": Administrative Discretion and the Fatal Politics of Assimilation; The Western Romance: Owen Wister and Administrative Discretion; Hamlin Garland: From Local Experience to Administrative Expertise; From Impressionism to Romance: Garland's Aesthetic Shift; Zitkala-Sa and an Impressionistic Alternative to the Western Romance. 
505 8 |a Chapter 5 Romance and Riot: Charles Chesnutt andthe Conventions of Extralegal Violence inthe Jim Crow SouthAmbivalence and Jim Crow Law; Social and Political Romances; Romantic Performance and Racial Politics; Extralegal Violence and a State of Abandonment; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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