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American literature in transition, 1770-1828 / edited by William Huntting Howell, Greta LaFleur.

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"Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition provides an omnibus account of American literature and its ever-evolving field of study. Emphasizing the ways in which American literature has been in transition ever since its founding, this revisionary series examines four phases of Americ...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Howell, William Huntting (Editor), LaFleur, Greta, 1981- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:Nineteenth-century American literature in transition
Subjects:
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature.
American literature > Colonial period.
Literature and society.
United States.
1600-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Transitions" / William Huntting Howell and Greta LaFleur
  • The law of the form and the form of the law / Matthew Garrett
  • The statesman's address / Sandra Gustafson
  • Vocabularies and other indigenous-language texts / Sean Harvey
  • The genteel novel in the early United States / Thomas Koenigs
  • The state of our union : comedy in the post-Revolutionary US theatre / Heather Nathans
  • "To assume her language as my own" : the revival hymn and the evangelical poetess in the early republic / Wendy Roberts
  • "Little secrets" : taste-making and the rise of the American cookbook / Elizabeth Hopwood
  • Modern bigotry : the war for the Ohio, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the settler colonial imagination in the early republic / John Mac Kilgore
  • "This politick salvage" : defining an early Native American literary aesthetics / Drew Lopenzina
  • Logics of exchange and the beginnings US Hispanophone literature / Emily García Emily García
  • The emigrationist turn in black anti-colonizationist sentiment / Kirsten Lee
  • The black child, the colonial orphan, and early republican visions of freedom / Anna Mae Duane
  • The affective post war / Michelle Sizemore
  • Revolutionary lives : memoir writing and meaning during the American Revolution / Michael McDonnell and Marama Whyte
  • Literature of poverty and labor / Lori Merish
  • Neuroqueering the republic : the case of Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond / Sari Altschuler
  • A queer crip method for early American studies / Don James McLaughlin.

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