Bibliograph

American literature in transition, 1876-1910, edited by Lindsay V. Reckson

Type

Label

American literature in transition, 1876-1910, edited by Lindsay V. Reckson

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American literature in transition, 1876-1910

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1296688293

Responsibility statement

edited by Lindsay V. Reckson

Series statement

Nineteenth century American literature in transition, volume 4Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

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? --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: We have never been post-Reconstruction / Lindsay V. Reckson -- Radical pasts, radical futures / Michelle Coghlan -- Unsettled colonialisms / Mary Zaborskis -- Secularism, race, and sex / Peter Coviello -- Sex and the suicide plot / Dana Seitler -- Virtual subjects / Katherine Biers -- Lyrics of the color line / Sonya Posmentier -- Experimental realisms / Natalia Cecire -- Species of sentiment / Lisa Mendelman -- The micro-climates of regionalism / William Gleason -- Racial topographies and the poetics of mass culture / Alexandra Socarides -- Oil / Jamie L. Jones -- Waste / Stephanie Foote -- Blood / Nancy Bentley -- Color against realism / Nicholas Gaskill -- Francis Harper's Reconstruction / Brigitte Fielder -- Emma Lazarus's cosmopolitanism / Sharon Oster -- Henry James's temporalities / Pamela Thurschwell -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's pragmatism / C ecile Roudeau -- Nicholas Black Elk's cosmology (or, post-reconstructing Black Elk) / Matthew A. Taylor

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