The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century American literature / edited by Russ Castronovo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castronovo, Russ, 1965-

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Castronovo, Russ Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: shifts, zigzags, impacts / Russ Castronovo

Antipodean American geography: Washington Irving's "globular" narratives / Paul Giles

The art of chaos: community and African American literary traditions / John Ernest

Are "American novels" novels?: Mardi and the problem of boring books / Jordan Alexander Stein

Reading race through disability: slavery and agency in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and "Those extraordinary twins" / Ellen Samuels

The invention of Mexican America / Jesse Alemán

Creole kinship: privacy and the novel in the New World / Nancy Bentley

Looking at state violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket / Shelley Streeby

Transatlantic vs. hemispheric: Toni Morrison's long nineteenth century / Anna Brickhouse

Temporality, race, and empire in Cooper's The Deerslayer: the beginning of the end / Robert S. Levine

The visible and invisible city: antebellum writers and urban space / Jeffrey Steele

Animals and the formation of liberal subjectivity in nineteenth-century American literature / Colleen Glenney Boggs

Archives of publishing and gender: historical codes in literary analysis / Shirley Samuels

The novel as board game: homiletic identification and forms of interactive narrative / Gregory S. Jackson

Skepticism in nineteenth-century American literature and philosophy / Maurice S. Lee

On the redundancy of "transnational American studies" / Jared Hickman

How to read: regionalism and the Ladies' Home Journal / Travis M. Foster

Literature and the news / Elisa Tamarkin

Reading minds in the nineteenth century / Paul Gilmore

Making an example: American literature as philosophy / Elizabeth Duquette

Abolition and activism: the present uses of literary criticism / James Dawes

Whose protest novel? Ramona, the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Indian / Susan Gillman

Nineteenth-century American literature without nature? Rethinking environmental criticism / Stephanie Le Menager

"Action, action, action": nineteenth-century literature for twenty-first-century citizenship? / Russ Castronovo, Dana D. Nelson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199730438

0199730431

OCLC:

725827684