Part 1: Elsewheres -- Material / Immaterial: Frederick Douglass and the 'Moral Chemistry of the Universe', 1855 / Cody Marrs -- Earth/ Atmosphere: The Leonid Meteor Shower, 1833 / Gordon Fraser -- Body/ Spirit: Walt Whitman's Hicksite Quaker Poetics, 1855 / Rachel Heffner-Burns -- Part 2: Excess Identities -- Latinx / Confederate: Loreta Janeta Velazquez as a Cross Dressing Soldier, 1861 / Leigh Johnson -- Philippines / United States: David Fagen Defects to the Filipino Army, 1899 / Spencer Tricker -- White / Not-White: Robert Montgomery Bird's Racial Transformations, 1839 / Hannah Lauren Murray -- Ecology / Radical Politics: Thoreau's Science of Civil Disobedience, 1849 / Michael Jonik -- Part 3: Chance Encounters -- Mexico / Britain: A History of Julia Pastrana's Teeth, 1860-2013 / Marissa López -- Matanzas, Cuba / Keswick, England: Maria Gowen Brooks Visits Robert Southey, 1831 / Erin Singer -- England / New England: A British Quaker and a Fugitive from Slavery Encounter Each Other on a Train, 1850 / Bridget Bennett -- Part 4: Impossible Systems -- Slave Labour / Wage Labour: Reading Bartleby's Refusals, 1850 / Tomos Hughes -- Antiquity / Modernity: An Issue of Puck Magazine, 1889 / Mark Storey -- Democracy / State: James Fenimore Cooper on the Frontier, 1826 / 1757 / Cécile Roudeau -- Ulster, 1785 /Pennsylvania, 1817/ Ulster, 1845: James McHenry's Palimpsest of Anglo Settler Colonialism -- Jared Hickman.
Summary:
A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture.
Series:
Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.