American Literature in Transition, 1876-1910: Volume 4

Informationen zum Autor Lindsay V. Reckson is Associate Professor of English at Haverford College. She was the recipient of an ACLS Fellowship for her first book, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press, 2020). Her writing has appeared in American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, American Religious Liberalism, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Klappentext Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations. Approaching literature through the cultural changes of the post-Reconstruction era, contributors examine a range of literary forms with an eye towards aesthetic innovation and social upheaval. Zusammenfassung Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations. Approaching literature through the cultural changes of the post-Reconstruction era, contributors examine a range of literary forms with an eye towards aesthetic innovation and social upheaval. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: We have never been post-reconstruction Lindsay V. Reckson; I. Transitive States: 1. Radical pasts, radical futures Michelle Coghlan; 2. Unsettled colonialisms Mary Zaborskis; 3. Secularism, race, and sex Peter Coviello; 4. Sex and the suicide plot Dana Seitler; 5. Virtual subjects Katherine Biers; II. Post-Reconstruction Aesthetics: 6. Lyrics of the color line Sonya Posmentier; 7. Experimental realisms Natalia Cecire; 8. Species of sentiment Lisa Mendelman; 9. The micro-climates of regionalism William Gleason; 10. Racial topographies and the poetics of mass culture Alexandra Socarides; III. Old Materialisms: 11. Oil Jamie L. Jones; 12. Waste Stephanie Foote; 13. Blood Nancy Bentley; 14. Color against realism Nicholas Gaskill; IV. Immanent Techniques: 15. Francis Harper's reconstruction Brigitte Fielder; 16. Emma Lazarus's cosmopolitanism Sharon Oster; 17. Henry James's temporalities Pamela Thurschwell; 18. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's pragmatism Cécile Roudeau; 19. Nicholas Black Elk's cosmology (or, post-reconstructing Black Elk) Matthew A. Taylor....

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• Authors: Reckson Lindsay Reckson, LINDSAY RECKSON, Lindsay (Haverford College Reckson, Lindsay V. (Haverford College Reckson
• Assisted by: Lindsay V Reckson (Editor), Lindsay V. Reckson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781108477505
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47750-5
• No. of pages: 381
• Series: American Literature in Transit; American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century; Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition; Nineteenth-Century American Li
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909