The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
Robert S Levine editor Russ Castronovo editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:23rd Jan '25
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Presents a wide range of new approaches to key topics such as race, disability, gender and sexuality, new materialism, and Indigeneity.
This book offers a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in the field of nineteenth-century American literary studies. It presents a wide range of new approaches to key topics such as Black studies, Latinx studies, disability, gender and sexuality, new materialism, and Indigeneity.The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps out new directions for the future of the field. The evidence and examples discussed by the contributors are compelling, grounded in case studies of key literary texts, both familiar and understudied, that help to bring critical debate into focus and model fresh interpretive perspectives. Essays provide new readings and framings of such figures as Herman Melville, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Zitkála-Šá.
ISBN: 9781009296731
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338 pages