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Archives of American Time examines American literature's figures and forms to disclose the competing temporalities that forestalled the consolidation of national and racial identity in the nineteenth century. Prattshows how the fine details of literary genres tell against the notion that they helped to create national, racial, or regional communities. "Pratt seeks to reanimate time as plural, fragmented, and rich with multiple narrative possibilities, which the notion of a singular, national time forecloses. This is an ambitious goal, and Pratt does a persuasive job of reorienting the reader's sightlines; his research is impeccable--all in all a fine book."-- American Literature "Lloyd Pratt's Archives of American Time is an ambitious, erudite, and important book that . . . astutely engages with central problems in the history of modernity and nineteenth-century American print culture."-- Novel " Archives of American Time examines the pluralization of temporalities in a series of chapters each of which contributes to the study of a distinct literary the historical romance, Southwestern humor, and African-American life writing. . . . Scrupulously examining Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hous

Author

Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812223729

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities