U.S. orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890

Author(s)

• Schueller, Malini Johar

Bibliographic Information

U.S. orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890

Malini Johar Schueller

University of Michigan Press, c1998

• : pbk

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• U.S. orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890 / Malini Johar Schueller.

  1998

  HathiTrust

  ic-world

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Race(ing) to the Orient
• Algerian slavery and the liberty vision : Royall Tyler, James Ellison, Susanna Rowson, Washington Irving, Peter Markoe
• Missionary colonialism, Egyptology, racial borderlands, and the satiric impulse : M.M. Ballou, William Ware, John DeForest, Maria Susanna Cummins, David F. Dorr
• Subversive orientalisms : Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Herman Melville
• The culture of Asian orientalism : missionary writings, travel writings, popular poetry
• "Mine Asia" : Emerson's erotics of oriental possession
• Whitman, Columbus, and the Asian mother

Details

• NCID: BA34477879
• ISBN:
  • 0472108859
  • 0472087746
• LCCN: 97021206
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ann Arbor
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 248 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS157
  • DC21 : 810.9/325/09034
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- Oriental influences
  • LCSH : American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Asia -- In literature
  • LCSH : Africa, North -- In literature
  • LCSH : Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
  • LCSH : Nationalism in literature
  • LCSH : Imperialism in literature
  • LCSH : Race in literature
  • LCSH : Sex in literature
  • LCSH : Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American