TROUBLED UNION, THE : EXPANSIONIST IMPERATIVES IN POST-RECONSTRUCTION AMERICAN NOVELS

C2010 VERY GOOD HARDBACK, NO JACKET, BRIGHT & CLEAN OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS [GONZALEZ, JOHN MORAN] ILLUSTRATED BOARDS, STRONG SPINE, 146 PGS EXPANSIONIST IMPERATIVES IN POST-RECONSTRUCTION AMERICAN NOVELS

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In" The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels, "John Moran Gonzalez traces the imperialist imaginings behind literary efforts to reunite the United States after the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This innovative study explores how the U.S. historical romance attempted to rebuild a national identity by renovating Manifest Destiny for the twentieth-century imperialist future through courtship and marriage plots. Yet even as these literary romances promised expansive national futures, the racial and gender contradictions of U.S. democracy threatened to result in troubled unions at home and fractious ventures abroad. Canonical authors such as Henry James, popular authors such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and rediscovered authors such as Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton provide the dramatic narratives examined in this book.Employing theoretical perspectives drawn from American Studies and Latin American Studies, Gonzalez highlights the importance of the domestic understood as both the domestic boundaries of the nation and of the home as a key site within civil society that maintained and renewed imperialist national subjectivities. "The Troubled Union" combines the formal analysis of literary genre with interdisciplinary cultural studies to elucidate just how the imperial national allegory deeply structured the U.S. cultural imagination of the late nineteenth century."

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ISBN: 0814211291

ISBN-13: 9780814211298

Publisher: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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