Michele Currie Navakas, Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America.
The book is an interdisciplinary history of discourse, with elements of natural science, political discourse, history of ideas, history of everyday life and material history. The theme is “America’s erstwhile coral obsession” (Newberry Library) in the 18th and 19th centuries. In American writing fr...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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European journal of American studies
2024
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The book is an interdisciplinary history of discourse, with elements of natural science, political discourse, history of ideas, history of everyday life and material history. The theme is “America’s erstwhile coral obsession” (Newberry Library) in the 18th and 19th centuries. In American writing from the 19th century, the growth of coral reefs was used as symbolic paradigm for economic, social, and national growth, and Navakas suggests that the coral was used for alternative, marginalized un... |
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