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"""There’s a lot to admire here, including Couch’s ability to say something new about topics like the connections between aesthetics and liberal individualism, which may have otherwise seemed exhausted...American Fragments positions itself less as an intervention and more as a contribution, a missing piece that makes the conversation about early US aesthetics more complete."" * Eighteenth-Century Studies * ""In American Fragments, Daniel Diez Couch urges us to examine the role that the fragment played both for readers and writers between 1787 and 1813...Couch’s work reminds us that there is meaning in the partial, intentionally incomplete silences of these fragments. Early American scholars will find this well-written analysis a thought-provoking addition to our understanding of this tumultuous and transitional period."" * Eighteenth-Century Fiction * ""In a field that has for decades glanced only fleetingly at the formal category of the fragment without focusing its critical attention, American Fragments is both a flash of illumination and a corrective lens. It restores to us, through the early republic’s minor forms, some of the freedom—and the historical contingency—that has been obscured by the myth of the national plot."" * Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University *"

In a field that has for decades glanced only fleetingly at the formal category of the fragment without focusing its critical attention, American Fragments is both a flash of illumination and a corrective lens. It restores to us, through the early republic's minor forms, some of the freedom-and the historical contingency-that has been obscured by the myth of the national plot. * Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University *

In a field that has for decades glanced only fleetingly at the formal category of the fragment without focusing its critical attention, American Fragments is both a flash of illumination and a corrective lens. It restores to us, through the early republic's minor forms, some of the freedom-and the historical contingency-that has been obscured by the myth of the national plot. -Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University

In a field that has for decades glanced only fleetingly at the formal category of the fragment without focusing its critical attention, American Fragments is both a flash of illumination and a corrective lens. It restores to us, through the early republic's minor forms, some of the freedom--and the historical contingency--that has been obscured by the myth of the national plot.-- Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University

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Daniel Diez Couch is Assistant Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy.

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