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Apocalyptic Sentimentalism
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Kevin Pelletier
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Focusing on a range of important antislavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sent
Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth Century US Literary History
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Maria Windell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement
Apocalyptic Geographies
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Jerome Tharaud
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American culture In nineteenth-century America, "apocalypse" referred not to
Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 590
Authors: John Hay
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagi
Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: John Hay
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Even before the Civil War, American writers were imagining life after a massive global catastrophe. For many, the blank slate of the American continent was inst