Schueller, Malini Johar,  1957- <br/><br/>
U.S. orientalisms :  race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890 / 
Malini Johar Schueller. 
 - xii, 248 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> First paperback edition 2001. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-242) and index. 
<br/><br/>Race(ing) to the Orient -- Algerian slavery and the liberty vision : Royall Tyler, James Ellison, Susanna Rowson, Washington Irving, Peter Markoe -- Missionary colonialism, Egyptology, racial borderlands, and the satiric impulse : M.M. Ballow, William Ware, John DeForest, Maria Susanna Cummins, David F. Dorr -- Subversive orientalisms : Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Herman Melville -- The culture of Asian orientalism : missionary writings, travel writings, popular poetry -- "Mine Asia" : Emerson's erotics of oriental possession -- Whitman, Columbus, and the Asian mother. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0472108859 (acid-free paper) 0472087746(paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97021206 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--Oriental influences<br/>American literature--History and criticism--19th century<br/>Stereotype (Psychology) in literature<br/>Nationalism in literature<br/>Imperialism in literature<br/>Race in literature<br/>Sex in literature
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia--In literature<br/>Africa, North--In literature<br/>Asia--Foreign public opinion, American
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS157