Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments; Introduction: scales of identification; 1. Democratic expansionism, gothic geographies, and Charles Brockden Brown; 2. Urban apartments, global cities: the enlargement of private space in Poe and James; 3. Cultural orphans: domesticity, missionaries, and China from Stowe to Sui Sin Far; 4. 'The Checkered Globe': cosmopolitan despair in the American Pacific; 5. Literature and regional production; Epilogue: scales of resistance.
Geography and the production of space in nineteenth-century American literature by Hsuan L. Hsu. ISBN 9780521197069. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.