Literary culture and U.S. imperialism : from the Revolution to World WarII / John Carlos Rowe.

Literary culture and U.S. imperialism -- The dream of enlightenment and the nightmare of imperialism: Charles Brockden Brown;s Wieland and Edgar Huntly -- Edgar Allan Poe's imperial fantasy and the American frontier -- Melville's Typee: U.S. imperialism at home and abroad -- Highway robbery: "Indian removal," the Mexican American War, and the American identity in John Rollin Ridge's (Yellow Bird) The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta -- Mark Twain's rediscovery of America in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Race, gender, and imperialism in Stephen Crane: A Monstrous Case -- The Education of Henry Adams andthe American empire -- W. E. B. Du Bois's tropical critique of U.S. imperialism-- The views from Rock Writing Bluff: the Nick Black Elk narratives and U.S. cultural imperialism -- Opening the gate to the other America: the Afro-Caribbean politics of Hurston's Mules and men and Tell my horse -- After America.