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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. The novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick and others described the 'races' in terms of emotional rather than physical characteristics. By doing so they produced the idea of 'racial

Title : The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Author : Ezra Tawil
Language : en
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