Writing and postcolonialism in the early republic /
"Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic is the first book-length analysis of early American literature through the lens of postcolonial theory. Although the United States represented a colonizing presence that displaced indigenous peoples and exported imperial culture, American colon...
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- The new nation and the limits of Colonial discourse
- To deceive the world: Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern chivalry
- The mental commonwealth of Judith Sargent Murray's The gleaner
- Royall Tyler's The Algerine captive and the worthy federal citizen
- The reputation of literature and opulence: Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn
- The peculiar brithright of every American: George Watterston's The lawyer
- The syllogistically fatal world of Washington Irving's Deidrich Knickerbocker
- The vagrant inclination.