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Literary Culture and US Imperialism

From the Revolution to World War II

By: John Carlos Rowe

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Paperback | 1 August 2000

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John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.

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"Nevertheless, this is a rich and powerful book, which effectively reconfigures the older virtues of textual analysis within a sophisticated framework of cutting-edge cultural theory... as intelligent as it is wide-ranging, whose plethora of provocative and pedagogically useful material will make it entirely indispensable for academic libraries."--Imperial Literary Culture "A stimulating and provocative book..."--Choice "Provides a sweeping reassessment of American imperialism.... A well-written and provocative account of the cultural responses to American imperialism, the work confronts central issues in contemporary theory and cultural studies."--History: Reviews of New Books "Nevertheless, this is a rich and powerful book, which effectively reconfigures the older virtues of textual analysis within a sophisticated framework of cutting-edge cultural theory...as intelligent as it is wide-ranging, whose plethora of provocative and pedagogically useful material will make it entirely indispensable for academic libraries."--Imperial Literary Culture

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Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism	p. 3
The Dream of Enlightenment and the Nightmare of Imperialism: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Edgar Huntly	p. 25
Edgar Allan Poe's Imperial Fantasy and the American Frontier	p. 53
Melville's Typee: U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad	p. 77
Highway Robbery: "Indian Removal," the Mexican-American War, and American Identity in John Rollin Ridge's (Yellow Bird) The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta	p. 97
Mark Twain's Rediscovery of America in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	p. 121
Race, Gender, and Imperialism in Stephen Crane: A Monstrous Case	p. 141
The Education of Henry Adams and the American Empire	p. 165
W. E. B. Du Bois's Tropical Critique of U.S. Imperialism	p. 195
The View from Rock Writing Bluff: The Nick Black Elk Narratives and U.S. Cultural Imperialism	p. 217
Opening the Gate to the Other America: The Afro-Caribbean Politics of Hurston's Mules and Men and Tell My Horse	p. 253
After America	p. 293
Notes	p. 299
Index	p. 367
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