{"product_id":"mapping-region-in-early-american-edward-watts-9780820353838","title":"Mapping Region in Early American Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMapping Region in Early American Writing\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on place-specific, local writing published before 1860, \u003ci\u003eMapping Region in Early American Writing\u003c\/i\u003e examines a period often overlooked in studies of regional literature in America. More than simply offering a prehistory of regionalist writing, these essays offer new ways of theorizing and studying regional spaces in the United States as it grew from a union of disparate colonies along the eastern seaboard into an industrialized nation on the verge of overseas empire building. They also seek to amplify lost voices of diverse narratives from minority, frontier, and outsider groups alongside their more well-known counterparts in a time when America's landscapes and communities were constan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Watts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820353833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820353838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Edward Watts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906605469951,"sku":"9780820353838","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6ff47cf-d301-458b-b046-a5bb55a62e7a.jpg?v=1748770896","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mapping-region-in-early-american-edward-watts-9780820353838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}