America's England : antebellum literature and Atlantic sectionalism /

This text examines the manoeuvres through which US partisans encoded the turmoil of antebellum America in terms of English affiliation. Demonstrating that English genealogies, geographies, and economics encoded the sectional crisis for southern and northern Americans, it locates sectionalism in a br...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Hanlon, Christopher.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history.
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