Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture : : Junctures of Time, Space, Self and Politics / / ed. by Edward Sugden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bennett, Bridget,; Fraser, Gordon,; Heffner-Burns, Rachel,; Hickman, Jared,; Hughes, Tomos,; Johnson, Leigh,; Jonik, Michael,; López, Marissa,; Marrs, Cody,; Murray, Hannah Lauren,; Roudeau, Cécile,; Singer, Erin C.,; Storey, Mark,; Sugden, Edward,; Tricker, Spencer,
• HerausgeberIn: Sugden, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture : I19CALC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations

A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American cultureProvides new terminology for considering nineteenth-century selfhoodMaps hitherto unexplored terrains, real and imaginary, in nineteenth-century AmericaDefines alternative and often surprising political systems that framed nineteenth-century American literatureAcross four parts of exploratory, creative and speculative essays, this book provides provocative frameworks and readings of canonical and non-canonical literature. The essays cover off-the-map places, warped historical chronologies, excessive selves, unlikely meetings and systemic incommensurability. Collectively they define original methods, categories and terrains for the study of the American cultural past. Altogether, this collection interrogates some of the most dominant critical moves of the past two decades and proposes alternative ways of working and thinking with the American nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Elsewheres -- 1 Material/Immaterial: Frederick Douglass and the ‘Moral Chemistry of the Universe’, 1855 -- 2 Earth/Atmosphere: The Leonid Meteor Shower, 1833 -- 3 Body/Spirit: Walt Whitman’s Hicksite Quaker Poetics, 1855 -- Part II. Excess Identities -- 4 Latinx/Confederate: Loreta Janeta Velazquez as a Cross-Dressing Soldier, 1861 -- 5 Philippines/United States: David Fagen Defects to the Filipino Army, 1899 -- 6 White/Not-White: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Racial Transformations, 1839 -- 7 Ecology/Radica l Politics: Thoreau’s Science of Civil Disobedience, 1849 -- Part III. Chance Encounters -- 8 Mexico/Britain: A History of Julia Pastrana’s Teeth, 1860–2013 -- 9 Matanzas, Cuba/Keswick, England: Maria Gowen Brooks Visits Robert Southey, 1831 -- 10 England/New England: A British Quaker and a Fugitive from Slavery Encounter Each Other on a Train, 1850 -- Part IV. Impossible Systems -- 11 Slave Labour/Wage Labour: Reading Bartleby’s Refusals, 1850 -- 12 Antiquity/Modernity: An Issue of Puck Magazine, 1889 -- 13 Democracy/State: James Fenimore Cooper on the Frontier, 1826/1757 -- 14 Ulster, 1785/Pennsylvania, 1817/ Ulster, 1845: James McHenry’s Palimpsest of Anglo Settler Colonialism -- Index