Control Number | muse60367 |
Control Number Identifier | MdBmJHUP |
Date and Time of Latest Transaction | 20180103104318.0 |
Additional Material Characteristics | m o d |
Physical Description Fixed Field | cr||||||||nn|n |
General Information | 170609s2017 vau o 00 0 eng d |
LC Control Number | 2017025187 |
International Standard Book Number | 9780813940656 |
| 0813940656 |
| 9780813940649 (cloth : alk. paper) |
System Control Number | (OCoLC)1012400359 |
Cataloging Source | MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP |
Geographic Area Code | n-us--- |
Library of Congress Call Number | PS374.R32 R53 2017 |
Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 813.009/355 23 |
Main Entry - Personal Name | Richards, Jason, 1968-, author. |
Title Statement | Imitation Nation [electronic resource] : Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature / Jason Richards |
Publication, Distribution, Etc. | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
Physical Description | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Bibliography, Etc. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Formatted Contents Note | Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation -- The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly -- Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture -- Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers -- Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno" -- Blackface violence and the early African American novel -- Epilogue: absorbing mimesis |
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term | National characteristics, American, in literature |
| Minorities in literature |
| Race in literature |
| American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism |
Index Term - Genre/Form | Electronic books. -- local |
Added Entry - Corporate Name | Project Muse |
Series Added Entry - Uniform Title | Book collections on Project MUSE |
Electronic Location and Access | Full text available: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/56967/ |