Description
In Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Hsuan L. Hsu examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces ranging from the single-family home to the globe. He focuses on authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Sarah Orne Jewett, who drew on literary tools such as rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different kinds of spaces. These authors used forms such as the regional sketch, the domestic novel, and the detective story to re-examine how local spaces and communities would change when incorporated into global economic and political networks. Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature is valuable reading for American literature scholars, and for all concerned with intersections between literature and geography.
This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe.
About the Author
Hsuan L. Hsu is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He was the co-editor of American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900 (2007).
Book Information
ISBN 9780521197069
Author Hsuan L. Hsu
Format Hardback
Page Count 270
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 570g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 23mm
This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe.
About the Author
Hsuan L. Hsu is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He was the co-editor of American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900 (2007).
Book Information
ISBN 9780521197069
Author Hsuan L. Hsu
Format Hardback
Page Count 270
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 570g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 23mm
