Crossings in nineteenth-century American culture : junctures of time, space, self and politics /
A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Język: | angielski |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Seria: | Interventions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
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| Dostęp online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3331890 |
Spis treści:
- 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