American Literary Geographies Spacial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores intersections between geography and American literary history, from the earliest geographic chronicles of the New World to the massive geopolitical transformation of the 1890s. Foregrounding the unsteady nature of geographical boundaries, the physical and imaginary migrations that coexisted with literary nationalisms, and changing attitudes toward geographical settings, these essays present alternatives to exceptionalist accounts of U.S. culture. The focus on literary and discursive settings addresses social and political developments such as imperialism, regionalism, and tourism. This book contributes to literary histories by emphasizing spatial over temporal frameworks as organizing principles or telling the story of American literature.Bruckner, Martin is the author of 'American Literary Geographies Spacial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900', published 2007 under ISBN 9780874139808 and ISBN 0874139805.