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Sundquist, Eric J. Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2006. 247 pp. Paper: $20.00.
Eric Sundquist's Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 18201865, is a reprint of his chapter in the Cambridge History of American Literature, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch and originally published in 1995. Its format as a reasonably priced paperback book makes accessible to scholars and students alike this study which is usually housed in the reference sections of university libraries. As Sundquist clearly states in his Introduction, "Some corrections have been made, and chapter titles and section subtitles as well as some paragraphs breaks have been added, but the text of this new edition is otherwise unchanged" (8-9). Because this excellent study treats important subjects such as "Slavery and African American Culture," "The Frontier and American Indians," and the seminal opening chapter on "Exploration and Empire," all subjects about which much has been written by other scholars since 1995, the reader wishes that this republication had been much longer and more detailed, including critiques of the vast amount of scholarly attention that has been paid to the slave narrative... |
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