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In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, usi

Examines how traditional dichotomies give way to emergent cultural forms in the literature of captivity.

For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and

The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. The novels of

Reading These United States explores the relationship between early American literature and federalism in the early decades of the republic. As a federal republ