John D. Kerkering
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The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Short description/annotationJohn D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America.Main descriptionJohn D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ...