The Sacred Game : Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630–1860

Name: The Sacred Game
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521301596
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ISBN: 9780521301596

by Albert J. von Frank

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

ISBN-10 0521301599

ISBN-13 9780521301596

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 30th, 1985

Print length 200 Pages

Weight 450 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 16.00 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: United States of America, USA Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

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This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in the expressions of pre-Civil War writers certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain perceptions of displacement and decline, so characteristic as to amount to a defining trait of American literature.

This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in the expressions of writers before the Civil War certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain perceptions of displacement and decline, so profoundly characteristic as to amount to a defining trait of American literature. As a frontier nation, America lacked an organic culture of its own and embarked on the impossibly difficult task of creating a cultural life from imported forms and ideas. Albert von Frank shows the history of this effort to be one of a desperate conservatism struggling against the withering effects of time and distance on cherished standards of the past.

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