Crossings in nineteenth-century American culture : junctures of time, space, self and politics / edited by Edward Sugden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sugden, Edward (Edward Alexander), 1986- editor.

Series:

Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.

Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Introduction

Part I. Elsewheres

1 Material/Immaterial: Frederick Douglass and the ‘Moral Chemistry of the Universe’, 1855

2 Earth/Atmosphere: The Leonid Meteor Shower, 1833

3 Body/Spirit: Walt Whitman’s Hicksite Quaker Poetics, 1855

Part II. Excess Identities

4 Latinx/Confederate: Loreta Janeta Velazquez as a Cross-Dressing Soldier, 1861

5 Philippines/United States: David Fagen Defects to the Filipino Army, 1899

6 White/Not-White: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Racial Transformations, 1839

7 Ecology/Radica l Politics: Thoreau’s Science of Civil Disobedience, 1849

Part III. Chance Encounters

8 Mexico/Britain: A History of Julia Pastrana’s Teeth, 1860–2013

9 Matanzas, Cuba/Keswick, England: Maria Gowen Brooks Visits Robert Southey, 1831

10 England/New England: A British Quaker and a Fugitive from Slavery Encounter Each Other on a Train, 1850

Part IV. Impossible Systems

11 Slave Labour/Wage Labour: Reading Bartleby’s Refusals, 1850

12 Antiquity/Modernity: An Issue of Puck Magazine, 1889

13 Democracy/State: James Fenimore Cooper on the Frontier, 1826/1757

14 Ulster, 1785/Pennsylvania, 1817/ Ulster, 1845: James McHenry’s Palimpsest of Anglo Settler Colonialism

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sugden, Edward Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

ISBN:

9781474476317

9781474476300

1474476309

OCLC:

1336053829