 | Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing temporalities and racial identities that in fact defined the antebellum period. Lloyd Pratt is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at the University of Oxford. He is author of The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
