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Author

Erkkila, Betsy, 1944-

Title Mixed bloods and other crosses : rethinking American literature from the Revolution to the culture wars / Betsy Erkkila.

Imprint

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	810.93552 Er48m 2005	---	Available

Description	xii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-244) and index.
Contents	Blood, sex, and other American crosses -- Mixed bloods: Jefferson, revolution, and the boundaries of America -- Revolutionary women -- The poetics of whiteness: Poe and the racial imaginary -- Whitman and the homosexual republic -- Emily Dickinson and class -- Beyond the boundaries: C.L.R. James to Herman Melville.
Subject	American literature -- History and criticism.
	Literature and society -- United States.
	Racially mixed people in literature.
	Social conflict in literature.
	Minorities in literature.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	Violence in literature.
	Racism in literature.
ISBN	0812238443 (alk. paper)
	9780812238440 (alk. paper)
Standard No.	NLGGC 266156649
	YDXCP 2103457
	NZ1 8667069