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Dislocating Race & Nation

Episodes in Nineteenth-century American Literary Nationalism

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British lite

It is generally acknowledged that Charles Bro ckden Brown was an American
literary nationalist. In his oft-cited prefatory note to Edgar Huntly (1799), he called
on American writers to address “the condition of our country,” maintaining that “
the field ofinvestigation, opened to us by our own country, should differ
essentially from those which exist in Europe.” Among the “new views” open to the
American writer, he stated somewhat self-servingly, were “incidents of Indian
hostility, and the ...