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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.

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Author:   Justine S. Murison (University of Illinois)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.774kg
ISBN:  

9781108475365

ISBN 10:   1108475361
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   23 June 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Literature for democracy Justine S. Murison; I. Fractures and Continuities: 2. Hemisphere Rodrigo Lazo; 3. Empire John Levi Barnard; 4. Economy David Anthony; 5. Religion Christine Hedlin and Toni Wall Jaudon; 6. Nature Kyla Schuller; 7. Removal Gina Caison; 8. Abolition Martha Schoolman; II. Forms and Formats: 9. Romance Emily Ogden; 10. Theatre Michelle Granshaw; 11. Popular poetry Michael C. Cohen; 12. Sentimentality Tess Chakkalakal; 13. African American print culture Derrick Spires; 14. Sexuality in print Jordan Alexander Stein; 15. Seriality Dale Bauer; 16. Unoriginality Claudia Stokes; III. Authors and Figures: 17. Apess/Sedgwick Ashley Reed; 18. Child/Thoreau Susan Ryan; 19. Douglass/Walker Marcy Dinius; 20. Emerson/Poe Christopher Hanlon; 21. Fuller/Stowe Dorri Beam; 22. Hawthorne/Winthrop Christopher Castiglia; 23. Melville/Whitman Kelly Ross; 24. Harper/Stewart Nazera Sadiq Wright.

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Justine S. Murison is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge, 2011), and her articles have appeared in such venues as American Literature, ESQ, Early American Literature, and The New Melville Studies. She is also a general editor for the new Broadview anthology of American Literature.

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