Archives of American time literature and modernity in the nineteenth century / [electronic resource] :
Lloyd Pratt.
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
- 252 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Written to the future -- Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity -- "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance -- Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism -- The deprivation of time in African American life writing -- Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780812203530 (electronic bk.)
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century Time in literature. Time--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century. Group identity--History--United States--19th century. Modernism (Literature)--United States. National characteristics, American, in literature.