Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-

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.


Electronic books.

PS217.T56 / P73 2010

810.9/33