How Long to Read The Troubled Union

How Long Does it Take to Read The Troubled Union?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 43 minutes to read The Troubled Union by John Morán González

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels, John Morán González traces the imperialist imaginings behind literary efforts to reunite the United States after the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This innovative study explores how the U.S. historical romance attempted to rebuild a national identity by renovating Manifest Destiny for the twentieth-century imperialist future through courtship and marriage plots. Yet even as these literary romances promised expansive national futures, the racial and gender contradictions of U.S. democracy threatened to result in troubled unions at home and fractious ventures abroad. Canonical authors such as Henry James, popular authors such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and rediscovered authors such as María Amparo Ruiz de Burton provide the dramatic narratives examined in this book. Employing theoretical perspectives drawn from American Studies and Latin American Studies, González highlights the importance of the "domestic"-understood as both the domestic boundaries of the nation and of the home-as a key site within civil society that maintained and renewed imperialist national subjectivities. The Troubled Union combines the formal analysis of literary genre with interdisciplinary cultural studies to elucidate just how the imperial national allegory deeply structured the U.S. cultural imagination of the late nineteenth century.

How long is The Troubled Union?

The Troubled Union by John Morán González is 158 pages long, and a total of 40,764 words.

This makes it 53% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Troubled Union Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 42 minutes to read The Troubled Union aloud.

What Reading Level is The Troubled Union?

The Troubled Union is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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