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An examination of literary responses to US imperialism from the late 18th century to the 1940s. Rowe argues that US literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures.
Again and again a strength to Rowe's discussion emerges from his ability to contextualise literature productively ... The results are in virtually every case an important new reading of a classic text.
Without ever simplifying the works he examines, Rowe shows how key American classics were embedded in the cultural symbolism and rhetoric of their times and were far less critical of imperialism than we had supposed until now.
John Carlos Rowe is Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine and the author of At Emersons Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature, The Other Henry James, and Through the Custom-House: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Modern Theory.
Again and again a strength to Rowe's discussion emerges from his ability to contextualise literature productively ... The results are in virtually every case an important new reading of a classic text.
Without ever simplifying the works he examines, Rowe shows how key American classics were embedded in the cultural symbolism and rhetoric of their times and were far less critical of imperialism than we had supposed until now.
John Carlos Rowe is Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine and the author of At Emersons Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature, The Other Henry James, and Through the Custom-House: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Modern Theory.