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Situation critical : critique, theory, and early American studies / Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American literature.
- American literature--17th century--Themes, motives.
- American literature--18th century--Themes, motives.
- American literature--19th century--Themes, motives.
- Criticism--United States.
- Criticism.
- United States--History--17th century.
- United States.
- United States--History--18th century.
- United States--History--19th century.
- American literature--Themes, motives.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Physical Description:
- viii, 296 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to Early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique. Bringing together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars, editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly demonstrate that critique is about acknowledging that we are never simply writing better or worse accounts of the past, but accounts of the present as well. The contributors examine topics ranging from the indeterminacy of knowledge and history to Black speculative writing and nineteenth-century epistemology, the role of the unconscious in settler colonialism, and early American writing about masturbation, repression, religion, and secularism and their respective influence on morality. The contributors also offer vital new interpretations of major lines of thought in the history of critique-especially those relating to Freud and Foucault-that will be valuable both for scholars of Early American studies and for scholars of the humanities and interpretive social sciences more broadly. Contributors. Max Cavitch, Brian Connolly, Matthew Crow, John J. Garcia, Christopher Looby, Michael Meranze, Mark J. Miller, Justine S. Murison, Britt Rusert, Ana Schwartz, Joan Wallach Scott, Jordan Alexander Stein"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Situation Critical / Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly
- Theory for Early America
- Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History / Joan W. Scott
- Foucault's Oedipus / Michael Meranze
- Subjects of Early America
- Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable / Ana Schwartz
- Michael Wigglesworth's Queer Orthography / Christopher Looby
- George Whitefield's Sexual Character / Mark J. Miller
- Fantastical Realism
- Secularism, Hypocrisy, and the Afterlives of Thomas Paine / Justine S. Murison
- No Matter: Persisting Rationalisms in Antebellum Black Thought / Britt Rusert
- Queering Abolition / Jordan Alexander Stein
- Power, Knowledge, Justice
- Equity in the Time of Moby-Dick / Matthew Crow
- Antebellum or Interbellum? / John J. Garcia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Situation critical
- ISBN:
- 9781478030317
- 1478030313
- 9781478026082
- 1478026081
- OCLC:
- 1385398672
- Publisher Number:
- 99996294756
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