Introduction -- Part I : Deformations of history -- Diedrich Knickerbocker, regular bred historian -- Unhistorical fictions : Sedgwick and Neal -- Part II : Reformations of the present -- Emerson's strong present tense -- Frederick Douglass's historical turn -- Israel Potter; or, hither and thither history -- Coda.
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Examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history.
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History, abolition, and the ever-present now in Antebellum American writing.
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9780198825647
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.