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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781108566872
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566872
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
Series:
Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
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The essays in American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 offer a new approach to the antebellum era, one that frames the age not merely as the precursor to the Civil War but as indispensable for understanding present crises around such issues as race, imperialism, climate change, and the role of literature in American society. The essays make visible and usable the period's fecund imagined futures, futures that certainly included disunion but not only disunion. Tracing the historical contexts, literary forms and formats, global coordinates, and present reverberations of antebellum literature and culture, the essays in this volume build on existing scholarship while indicating exciting new avenues for research and teaching. Taken together, the essays in this volume make this era's literature relevant for a new generation of students and scholars.

Reviews

‘The volume’s organization is clever and fuses together both older, ‘traditional’ forms of literary study (authors and genres) and newer forms of cultural studies. I can imagine the essays being used individually by instructors teaching undergraduate classes as well as more comprehensively by graduate students or anyone starting a new project who needs an overview of new work in the field and/or new perspectives on the foundational concepts, genres, and authors of the era. This collection is mercifully free of the hemming and hawing around aesthetic judgment, critical valuation, and the ‘method wars’ that have recently bogged down many other literary fields. … Each of the essays here uses varying and idiosyncratic blends of historicism, close reading, network theory, cultural study, biography, structuralism, poststructuralism, and more. I find in this methodological spontaneity the true heart of this delightfully weird field.’

Sarah Blackwood Source: Early American Literature

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