The new nineteenth-century American literary studies / edited by Russ Castronovo, Robert S. Levine.

Other author Castronovo, Russ, 1965- editor.
Other author Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953- editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxv, 322 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesTwenty-first century critical revisions
Twenty-first-century critical revisions. ^A1381663
Contents Introduction: Taking stock and new directions / Russ Castronovo and Robert S. Levine -- Harriet Wilson's lessons : disability and nineteenth-century American literature / Sari Altschuler -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the new Civil War literary studies / Colleen Glenney Boggs -- The global South : a speculative exercise / Katharine A. Burnett -- Making it new : William Cullen Bryant's Iliad and postbellum poetics / Michael C. Cohen -- Law, nineteenth-century American literary studies, and the Black formalist tradition / Jeannine Marie Delombard -- Conjuring nineteenth-century Black environmentalism / Erin E. Forbes -- Transitioning Queer studies in nineteenth-century American literature / Ren Heintz -- New materialisms and scalar collapse in nineteenth-century American literary studies / Paul Hurh -- Nineteenth-century Spanish-language textbooks and US American literature / Carmen E. Lamas -- The political functions of Reconstruction literature, then and now / Gregory Laski -- Echoes from the past, archives of the future : Latinx authors and Spanish language print culture / Rodrigo Lazo -- Beyond the secularization thesis : the postsecular turn in nineteenth-century American literary studies / Gretchen Murphy -- A periodical masquerade : the history of the book in nineteenth-century -- America, unbound / Matthew Pethers -- Tasteful sketches and tasteless ambition : rethinking the place of the sketch in nineteenth-century US literature / Claudia Stokes -- Grounding nineteenth-century studies in Indigenous studies / Kathryn Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup -- Cultures of data : Antebellum literature and the quantitative turn / Edward Whitley -- Rethinking critical geographies : Transamerican studies, the Pacific, and the nineteenth-century United States / Maria A. Windell -- Rethinking Black speculative fiction : the example of Charles Chesnutt / Autumn Womack -- The Black Pacific : new directions in race and transnationalism / Edlie Wong -- "Unfeeling stone" : rethinking sentimentality at the heart of nineteenth-century American literary studies / Xine Yao.
Abstract "This book offers a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in the field of nineteenth-century American literary studies. It presents a wide range of new approaches to key topics such as Black studies, Latinx studies, disability, gender and sexuality, new materialism, and Indigeneity"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: New nineteenth-century American literary studies [New York] : Cambridge University Press, [2024] 9781009296748
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