Unsettled States : Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies / Dana Luciano, Ivy Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luciano, Dana, Editor.

Wilson, Ivy, Editor.

Series:

America and the Long 19th Century

America and the Long 19th Century ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano andIvy G. Wilson present some ofthe most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and culturalstudies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from seniorscholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challengesto the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organizedscholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges tobe aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks waysof inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field.Writtenby scholars primarily working in the “minor” fields of critical race and ethnicstudies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexualitystudies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritariancriticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to findingnew connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstratehow the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automaticrecourse to a predetermined “minor” location, subject, or critical approach.Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an “Americanliterature” in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of afield that is always on the move.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. On moving ground

1. Confederates in the Hispanic attic: the archive against itself

2. Historical totality and the African American archive

3. Race, reenactment, and the “natural-born citizen”

4. Doing justice to the archive: beyond literature

5. Unsettled life: early Liberia’s epistolary equivocations

6. The news at the ends of the earth: polar periodicals

7. Feeling like a state: writing the 1863 new york city draft riots

8. Impersonating the state of exception

9. Eat, sex, race

10. Connecticut Yankings: mark twain and the masturbating dude

11. What came before

P.s.: A coda

About the contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-1833-X

OCLC:

888316100