 | Mapping Region in Early American Writing Subjects: Community life in literature.; Geographical perception in literature.; Landscapes in literature.; Space perception in literature.; Regionalism in literature.; American literature; American literature; American literature; Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions-imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively-played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole, they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how diverse populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying the American landscape. Edward Watts (Editor) EDWARD WATTS is a professor of English at Michigan State University. Keri Holt (Editor) KERI HOLT is an associate professor of English and American studies at Utah State University. John Funchion (Editor) JOHN FUNCHION is associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of Miami. |
