The secret history of the early American novel: Leonora Sansay and revolution in Saint Domingue
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The pressing concerns of Creole population who sought to make a home for themselves in the Americas is highlighted in Leonora Sansay's epistolary novel, Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo. An account of the slave rebellion in Haiti told by a woman is a tale of opposition between the physical and the social body and the novel demonstrates that the history of the Creole social reproduction is the history of the early American novel.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2006
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Progress, labor, revolution: the modern times of antebellum African American life writing
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Notions of time and progress as they are portrayed in American antebellum literature are examined, focusing on the life stories of African Americans. Topics include the non-synchronous life patterns of white and black Americans; an argument against the idea that individual identities move toward a general, abstract, national identity through time; and a consideration of progress, labor, revolution, and literary studies.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2000
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The cosmopolitan revolution: loyalism and the fiction of an American nation
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The author analyzes the epistolary novel by Hector St John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, in which a simple American farmer corresponds with an erudite British landowner. He regards this novel as having played a role in the story of American nationalism and the novel articulates the late eighteenth-century cosmopolitan philosophy that was shared by American patriots.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2006
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