American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910: Volume 4

Author:   Lindsay V. Reckson (Haverford College, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9781108477505


Pages:   381
Publication Date:   18 August 2022
Format:   Hardback
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American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910: Volume 4


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Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that underwrote much of its self-understanding. This volume queries the various forms and formations of post-Reconstruction American literature. It contends that the literature of this period, most often referred to as 'turn-of-the-century' might be more productively oriented by the end of Reconstruction and the haunting aftermath of its emancipatory potential than by the logic of temporal and social advance that underwrote the end of the century and the beginning of the Progressive Era. Acknowledging that nearly all US literature after 1876 might be described as post-Reconstruction, the volume invites readers to reframe this period by asking: under what terms did post-Reconstruction American literature challenge or re-consolidate the 'nation' as an affective, political, and discursive phenomenon? And what kind of alternative pasts and futures did it write into existence?

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Author:   Lindsay V. Reckson (Haverford College, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781108477505


ISBN 10:   110847750
Pages:   381
Publication Date:   18 August 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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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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.

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