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The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 151) by Associate Professor Ezra Tawil; Ezra F. Tawil is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 151) about?
The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine race for an emerging national culture. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian conflict provided authors and readers with an apt analogy for the problem of slavery. By uncovering the sentimental aspects of the frontier romance, Tawil redraws the lines of influence between the Indian novel of the 1820s and the sentimental novel of slavery, demonstrating how Harriet Beecher Stowe's Unc
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- Author
- Associate Professor Ezra Tawil; Ezra F. Tawil
- Publisher
- CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS; Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511242038
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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