Archives of American Time : Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Written to the Future -- 1. Figures of Print, Orders of Time, and the Character of American Modernity -- 2. ''A Magnificent Fragment'': Dialects of Time and the American Historical Romance -- 3. Local Time: Southwestern Humor and Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism -- 4. The Deprivation of Time in African American Life Writing -- Epilogue: The Spatial Turn and the Scale of Freedom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period.

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