Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index.
Contents
Nathaniel Hawthorne : history imagined "fantastically awry" -- John Rollin Ridge : extending the borders of "America" from New England to Alta California -- Henry David Thoreau : "the only true America" -- Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's cabin and the question of the American colonization society -- William Wells Brown : mapping the American diaspora -- Herman Melville : ruthless democracy.
