U.S. orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890 / Malini Johar Schueller.

Contents Race(ing) to the Orient -- Algerian slavery and the liberty vision : Royall Tyler, James Ellison, Susanna Rowson, Washington Irving, Peter Markoe -- Missionary colonialism, Egyptology, racial borderlands, and the satiric impulse : M.M. Ballow, William Ware, John DeForest, Maria Susanna Cummins, David F. Dorr -- Subversive orientalisms : Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Herman Melville -- The culture of Asian orientalism : missionary writings, travel writings, popular poetry -- "Mine Asia" : Emerson's erotics of oriental possession -- Whitman, Columbus, and the Asian mother.
Local noteLittle-314038--30513102029V.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-242) and index.
LCCN 97021206
ISBN0472108859 (acid-free paper)

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