Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture : : Junctures of Time, Space, Self and Politics /

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

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 AmericaDefi...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations
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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

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