The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps out new directions for the future of the field. The evidence and examples discussed by the contributors are compelling, grounded in case studies of key literary texts, both familiar and understudied, that help to bring critical debate into focus and model fresh interpretive perspectives. Essays provide new readings and framings of such figures as Herman Melville, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Zitkįla-į.
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Presents a wide range of new approaches to key topics such as race, disability, gender and sexuality, new materialism, and Indigeneity.
Introduction: taking stock and new directions Russ Castronovo and Robert
S. Levine;
1. Harriet Wilson's lessons: disability and nineteenth-century
American literature Sari Altschuler;
2. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the
new Civil war literary studies Colleen Glenney Goggs;
3. The Global South: a
speculative exercise Katharine A. Burnett;
4. 'Making it new: William Cullen
Bryant's Iliad and postbellum poetics' Michael C. Cohen;
5. Law,
Nineteenth-Century American literary studies, and the black formalist
tradition Jeannine Marie DeLombard;
6. Conjuring Nineteenth-Century black
environmentalism Erin Forbes;
7. Transitioning queer studies in
Nineteenth-Century American literature Ren Heintz;
8. New materialisms and
scalar collapse in Nineteenth-Century American literary studies Paul Hurh;
9.
Nineteenth-Century Spanish-language textbooks and US American literature
Carmen E. Lamas;
10. The political functions of reconstruction literature,
then and now Gregory Laski;
11. Echoes from the past, archives of the
future: Latinx Authors and Spanish-language print culture Rodrigo Lazo and
Gretchen Murphy;
12. A periodical Masquerade: the History of the Book in
Nineteenth-Century America, unbound Matthew Pethers;
13. Tasteful sketches
and tasteless ambition: rethinking the place of the sketch in
Nineteenth-Century US Literature Claudia Stokes;
14. Grounding
Nineteenth-Century studies in indigenous studies Kathryn Walkiewicz and
Kelley Wisecup;
15. Cultures of data: literature and the quantitative turn
Edward Whitley;
16. Rethinking critical geographies: transamerican studies,
the pacific, and the Nineteenth-Century United States Maria A. Windell;
17.
Rethinking black speculative fiction: the example of Charles Chesnutt Autumn
Womack;
18. The black pacific: new directions in race and transnationalism
Edlie Wong;
19. 'Unfeeling Stone': rethinking sentimentality at the heart of
Nineteenth-Century American literary studies Xine Yao; Index.
Russ Castronovo is Tom Paine Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published widely on American literature on topics such as democracy, citizenship, and aesthetics. He is author and editor of ten books, including most recently American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability (2023) and Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America (2014). He is co-editor of the journal American Literary History. Robert S. Levine is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His most recent books are The Lives of Frederick Douglass (2016), Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (2018), and The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (2021). He has won NEH Fellowships and a Guggenheim. He is the General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
