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

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bennett, Bridget (Contribuidor), Fraser, Gordon (Contribuidor), Heffner-Burns, Rachel (Contribuidor), Hickman, Jared (Contribuidor), Hughes, Tomos (Contribuidor), Johnson, Leigh (Contribuidor), Jonik, Michael (Contribuidor), López, Marissa (Contribuidor), Marrs, Cody (Contribuidor), Murray, Hannah Lauren (Contribuidor), Roudeau, Cécile (Contribuidor), Singer, Erin C. (Contribuidor), Storey, Mark (Contribuidor), Sugden, Edward (Contribuidor, Editor ), Tricker, Spencer (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Colección:Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture : I19CALC
Temas:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Political culture > History > 19th century.
Space and time in literature.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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