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OverviewThe contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to Early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique. Bringing together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars, editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly demonstrate that critique is about acknowledging that we are never simply writing better or worse accounts of the past, but accounts of the present as well. The contributors examine topics ranging from the indeterminacy of knowledge and history to Black speculative writing and nineteenth-century epistemology, the role of the unconscious in settler colonialism, and early American writing about masturbation, repression, religion, and secularism and their respective influence on morality. The contributors also offer vital new interpretations of major lines of thought in the history of critique-especially those relating to Freud and Foucault-that will be valuable both for scholars of Early American studies and for scholars of the humanities and interpretive social sciences more broadly. Contributors. Max Cavitch, Brian Connolly, Matthew Crow, John J. Garcia, Christopher Looby, Michael Meranze, Mark J. Miller, Justine S. Murison, Britt Rusert, Ana Schwartz, Joan Wallach Scott, Jordan Alexander Stein Full Product DetailsAuthor: Max Cavitch , Brian ConnollyPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781478026082ISBN 10: 1478026081 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 12 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Situation Critical / Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly 1 I. Theory for Early America 1. Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History / Joan W. Scott 33 2. Foucault’s Oedipus / Michael Meranze 52 II. Subjects of Early America 3. Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable / Ana Schwartz 73 4. Michael Widdlesworth’s Queer Orthography / Christopher Looby 103 5. George Whitefield’s Sexual Character / Mark J. Miller 139 III. Fantasies of Realism 6. Secularism, Hypocrisy, and the Afterlives of Thomas Paine / Justine S. Murison 177 7. No Matter: Persisting Rationalisms in Antebellum Black Thought / Britt Rusert 202 8. Queering Abolition / Jordan Alexander Stein 223 IV. Power, Knowledge, Justice 9. Equality in the Time of Moby-Dick / Matthew Crow 241 10. Antebellum or Interbellum? / John J. Garcia 263 List of Contributors 287 Index 289ReviewsIn Situation Critical, Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly issue a rousing call for a return to critique, arguing for the importance of the study of early America to some of the most urgent questions of twenty-first-century life. Locating contemporary ideas about sovereignty, race, sexuality, justice, and power in the unsettled state of colonial and early national American culture, the essays collected here engage early America not as a stable ground or point of origin but rather as a particularly fertile site for a critical history, one that brings empirical and theoretical approaches into dynamic relation.” -- Meredith L. McGill, Professor of English, Rutgers University Author InformationMax Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. Brian Connolly is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and the author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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