Turns of Event : : Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion /

Turns of Event : : Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion / / ed. by Hester Blum.

American literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions over the past two decades that have been consistently described as "turns," whether transnational, hemispheric, postnational, spatial, temporal, postsecular, aesthetic, or affective. In Turns of Event, Hester Blum and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Allewaert, Monique,
Bauer, Ralph,
Blum, Hester,
Brückner, Martin,
Burnham, Michelle,
Castiglia, Christopher,
Goudie, Sean X.,
McGill, Meredith L.,
Sanborn, Geoffrey,
HerausgeberIn:
Blum, Hester,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 14 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Academic Positioning Systems
  • Part I. Provocations
  • Chapter 1. Turn It Up: Affects, Structures of Feeling, and Face- to-Face Education
  • Chapter 2. Literary History, Book History, and Media Studies
  • Chapter 3. The Cartographic Turn and American Literary Studies: Of Maps, Mappings, and the Limits of Metaphor
  • Chapter 4. Twists and Turns
  • Part II. Turn-by-Turn Directions: Transnational, Hemispheric, Oceanic
  • Chapter 5. Of Turns and Paradigm Shifts: Humanities, Science, and Transnational American Studies
  • Chapter 6. The Geopolitics and Tropologies of the American Turn
  • Chapter 7. The Caribbean Turn in C19 American Literary Studies
  • Chapter 8. Oceanic Turns and American Literary History in Global Context
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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