American literature in transition, 1876-1910 / edited by Lindsay V. Reckson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reckson, Lindsay Vail, 1982- editor.

Series:

Nineteenth century American literature in transition ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that underwrote much of its self-understanding. This volume queries the various forms and formations of post-Reconstruction American literature. It contends that the literature of this period, most often referred to as 'turn-of-the-century' might be more productively oriented by the end of Reconstruction and the haunting aftermath of its emancipatory potential than by the logic of temporal and social advance that underwrote the end of the century and the beginning of the Progressive Era. Acknowledging that nearly all US literature after 1876 might be described as post-Reconstruction, the volume invites readers to reframe this period by asking: under what terms did post-Reconstruction American literature challenge or re-consolidate the 'nation' as an affective, political, and discursive phenomenon? And what kind of alternative pasts and futures did it write into existence?

Contents:

Introduction: We have never been post-Reconstruction / Lindsay V. Reckson

Radical pasts, radical futures / Michelle Coghlan

Unsettled colonialisms / Mary Zaborskis

Secularism, race, and sex / Peter Coviello

Sex and the suicide plot / Dana Seitler

Virtual subjects / Katherine Biers

Lyrics of the color line / Sonya Posmentier

Experimental realisms / Natalia Cecire

Species of sentiment / Lisa Mendelman

The micro-climates of regionalism / William Gleason

Racial topographies and the poetics of mass culture / Alexandra Socarides

Oil / Jamie L. Jones

Waste / Stephanie Foote

Blood / Nancy Bentley

Color against realism / Nicholas Gaskill

Francis Harper's Reconstruction / Brigitte Fielder

Emma Lazarus's cosmopolitanism / Sharon Oster

Henry James's temporalities / Pamela Thurschwell

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's pragmatism / C ecile Roudeau

Nicholas Black Elk's cosmology (or, post-reconstructing Black Elk) / Matthew A. Taylor.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Aug 2022).

ISBN:

1-108-80186-2

1-108-80660-0

1-108-76371-5

OCLC:

1296688293