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Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture & Geo Antebellum by Anne Baker HC/DJ
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10
0472115707
ISBN-13
9780472115709
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51073817
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Publication Name
Heartless Immensity : Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Subject
American / General, United States / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-010055
Reviews
Rich, widely-researched, pedagogically useful, and timely, Baker's study is fresh both in its specific approach and the array of texts discussed. - Bruce Harvey, Florida International University
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9/358
Synopsis
As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country's constantly fluctuating borders and its annexation of vast new territories. Anne Baker looks at a variety of sources, including letters, speeches, newspaper editorials, schoolbooks, as well as visual and literary works of art. These cultural artifacts suggest that the country's anxiety was fueled primarily by two concerns: fears about the size of the nation as a threat to democracy, and about the incorporation of nonwhite, non-Protestant regions. These fears had a consistent and influential presence until after the Civil War, functioning as vital catalysts for the explosion of literary creativity known as the "American Renaissance," including the work of Melville, Thoreau, and Fuller, among others. Building on extensive archival research as well as insights from cultural geographers and theorists of nationhood, Heartless Immensity demonstrates that national expansion had a far more complicated, multifaceted impact on antebellum American culture than has previously been recognized. Baker shows that Americans developed a variety of linguistic strategies for imagining the form of the United States and its position in relation to other geopolitical entities. Comparisons to European empires, biblical allusions, body politic metaphors, and metaphors derived from science all reflected--and often attempted to assuage--fears that the nation was becoming either monstrously large or else misshapen in ways that threatened cherished beliefs and national self-images. Heartless Immensity argues that, in order to understand the nation's shift from republic to empire and to understand American culture in a global context, it is first necessary to pay close attention to the processes by which the physical entity known as the United States came into being. This impressively thorough study will make a valuable contribution to the fields of American studies and literary studies. Anne Baker is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University., Examines how a young nation responded to constantly expanding boundaries, as witnessed in its literature, public documents, schoolbooks, and art
LC Classification Number
PS217.I47B35 2007
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