History, abolition, and the ever-present now in Antebellum American writing

History, abolition, and the ever-present now in Antebellum American writing / Jeffrey Insko.

Examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Insko, Jeffrey (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:	1800-1899 American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Slavery in literature. History in literature. Authors, American > 19th century. Politics and literature > United States. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American literature Authors, American History in literature Politics and literature Slavery in literature United States Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I : Deformations of history
Diedrich Knickerbocker, regular bred historian
Unhistorical fictions : Sedgwick and Neal
Part II : Reformations of the present
Emerson's strong present tense
Frederick Douglass's historical turn
Israel Potter; or, hither and thither history
Coda.