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The Sacred Game: Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
The Sacred Game Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature 16301860 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Author: Albert J. von Frank
This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in the expressions of writers before the Civil War certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain perceptions of displacement and decline, so profoundly characteristic as to amount to a defin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521301596
ISBN-10: 0521301599
Publication Date: 6/30/1985
Pages: 200
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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