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Title:

Crossings in nineteenth-century American culture : junctures of time, space, self and politics / edited by Edward Sugden.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1800-1899
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Political culture--History--19th century.
Space and time in literature.
History.
American literature.
Manners and customs.
Political culture.
Space and time in literature.
United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Sugden, Edward (Edward Alexander), 1986- editor. https://isni.org/isni/0000000367769474

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

1474476287
9781474476287

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1314287242

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)