{"id":13090,"date":"2011-04-04T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13090"},"modified":"2013-02-26T02:18:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:18:12","slug":"the-making-of-racial-sentiment-slavery-and-the-birth-of-the-frontier-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13090","title":{"rendered":"The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cambridge University Press<\/a>
\nAugust 2006
\n256 pages
\nDimensions: 228 x 152 mm
\nWeight: 0.55 kg
\nHardback ISBN: 9780521865395
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780521073042
\nAdobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9780511239465
\nMobipocket eBook ISBN: 9780511247484<\/p>\n

Ezra Tawil<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English
\nUniversity of Rochester, Rochester, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine ‘race’ for an emerging national culture. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian conflict provided authors and readers with an apt analogy for the problem of slavery. By uncovering the sentimental aspects of the frontier romance, Tawil redraws the lines of influence between the ‘Indian novel’ of the 1820s and the sentimental novel of slavery, demonstrating how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/em> ought to be reconsidered in this light. This study reveals how American literature of the 1820s helped form modern ideas about racial differences.<\/p>\n

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