American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828
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Part of Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
- Editors:
- William Huntting Howell, Boston University
- Greta LaFleur, Yale University, Connecticut
- Date Published: June 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108475860
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This volume presents a complex portrait of the United States of America grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Topics include (but are not limited to): the dynamics of language and power, the treachery of memory, the lived experience of racial and economic inequality, the aesthetics of Indigeneity, the radical possibilities of disability, the fluidity of gender and sexuality, the depth and culture-making power of literary genre, the history of poetics, the cult of performance, and the hidden costs of foodways. Taken together, the essays offer a vision of a vibrant, contradictory, and conflicted early US Republic resistant to consensus accountings and poised to inform new and better origin stories for the polity to come.
Read more- Introduces new perspectives on canonical texts as well as new archives for further exploration, with particular attention to authors and genres understudied and underrepresented in the scholarship
- Provides a wide ranging and interdisciplinary introduction to cutting-edge scholarship on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century US literature
- Retains a sense of the ideological importance of literature at this moment without marginalizing it as merely ideologically important
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'Howell and LaFleur's collection should put to rest debates about whether our field suffers a theory deficit and neglects aesthetics and form. The volume's essays adroitly handle topics as wide-ranging as using queer crip theory and decolonizing Native literary aesthetics; they also sharpen our attention to genre with a scope of themes including paranoid style and revival hymn poetics. The volume's wealth of information, density of primary text references, and bibliographic coverage also equip anyone teaching early American literature courses with fresh pedagogical impulses and a wellspring of spin-off subjects to guide undergraduate and graduate research; as with good teaching, the essays assiduously note the greater amount of work remaining to be done on a variety of topics, texts, authors, and archives.' Patrick Erben, Early American Literature
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- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108475860
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.689kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: 'Transitions' William Huntting Howell and Greta LaFleur
I. Form and Genre: What Do We Have Here?:
2. The Law of the Form and the Form of the Law Matthew Garrett
3. The Statesman's Address Sandra Gustafson
4. Vocabularies and other Indigenous-Language Texts Sean Harvey
5. The Genteel Novel in the Early United States Thomas Koenigs
6. The State of Our Union: Comedy in the Post-Revolutionary US Theatre Heather Nathans
7. 'To assume her Language as my own': The Revival Hymn and the Evangelical Poetess in the Early Republic Wendy Roberts
8. 'Little Secrets': Taste-Making and the Rise of the American Cookbook Elizabeth Hopwood
II. Networks: 9. Modern Bigotry: The War for the Ohio, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Settler Colonial Imagination in the Early Republic John Mac Kilgore
10. 'This Politick Salvage': Defining an Early Native American Literary Aesthetics Drew Lopenzina
11. Logics of Exchange and the Beginnings of US Hispanophone Literature Emily García
12. The Emigrationist Turn in Black Anti-Colonizationist Sentiment Kirsten Lee
13. The Black Child, the Colonial Orphan, and Early Republican Visions of Freedom Anna Mae Duane
III. Methods for Living: 14. The Affective Post War Michelle Sizemore
15. Revolutionary Lives: Memoir Writing and Meaning Making during the American Revolution Michael McDonnell and Marama Whyte
16. Literature of Poverty and Labor Lori Merish
17. Neuroqueering the Republic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond Sari Altschuler
18. A Queer Crip Method for Early American Studies Don James McLaughlin.
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