TY - GEN AU - Schueller,Malini Johar TI - U.S. orientalisms: race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890 SN - 0472108859 (acid-free paper) AV - PS157 PY - 1998/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - American literature KW - Oriental influences KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Stereotype (Psychology) in literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Sex in literature KW - Asia KW - In literature KW - Africa, North KW - Foreign public opinion, American N1 - First paperback edition 2001; Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-242) and index; 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 ER -