Introduction: Shifts, Zigzags, Impacts
Russ Castronovo
Shifts
1. Paul Giles, "Antipodean American Geography: Washington Irving's
"Globular" Narratives"
2. John Ernest, "The Art of Chaos: Community and African American
Literary Traditions"
3. Jordan Stein, "Are 'American Novels' Novels?: Mardi and the
Problem of Boring Books"
4. Ellen Samuels, Reading Race through Disability: Slavery and
Agency in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and "Those Extraordinary
Twins""
5. Jesse Alemán, "The Invention of Mexican America"
6. Nancy Bentley, "Creole Kinship: Privacy and the Novel in the New
World"
7. Shelley Streeby, "Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, José
Martí, and Haymarket"
8. Anna Brickhouse, "Transatlantic vs. Hemispheric: Toni Morrison's
Long Nineteenth Century"
Zigzags
9. Robert S. Levine, "Temporality, Race, and Empire in Cooper's The
Deerslayer: The Beginning of the End"
10. Jeffrey Steele, "The Visible and Invisible City: Antebellum
Writers and Urban Space"
11. Colleen Glenney Boggs, "Animals and the Formation of Liberal
Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"
12. Shirley Samuels, "Archives of Publishing and Gender: Historical
Codes in Literary Analysis"
13. Gregory S. Jackson, "The Novel as Board Game: Homiletic
Identification and Forms of Interactive Narrative"
14. Maurice S. Lee, "Skepticism in Nineteenth-Century American
Literature and Philosophy"
15. Jared Hickman, "On the Redundancy of "Transnational American
Studies"
Impacts
16. Travis Foster, "How to Read: Regionalism and the Ladies' Home
Journal"
17. Elisa Tamarkin, "Literature and the News"
18. Paul Gilmore, "Reading Minds in the Nineteenth Century"
19. Elizabeth Duquette, "Making an Example: American Literature as
Philosophy"
20. James Dawes, "Abolition and Activism: The Present Uses of
Literary Criticism"
21. Susan Gillman, "Whose Protest Novel? Ramona, the Uncle Tom's
Cabin of the Indian"
22. Stephanie Lemenager, "Nineteenth-Century American Literature
without Nature? Rethinking Environmental Criticism"
23. Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, "Action, Action, Action":
Nineteenth-Century Literature for Twenty-first-Century
Citizenship?"
Index
Russ Castronovo is is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and
American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the
author of Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global
Era (University of Chicago Press, 2007); Necro Citizenship: Death,
Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United
States (Duke UP, 2001), and Fathering the Nation: American
Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (University of California
Press, 1996).
The essays are uniformly high in quality,
*Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Modern
Language Review*
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