Pub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1353/eal.2023.a903789
Jin Lu
project, including mobility, neighborhood, and institution, or courses that are organized, as Klimasmith’s study is, by city. She provides instructors with an especially rich archive for a literary study of city-making in Philadelphia, including engravings by William Birch, correspondence surrounding the construction of Philadelphia’s public waterworks, and Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Ormond (1799). Urban Rehearsals is an invaluable resource for instructors making the case for the centrality of literary studies to this interdisciplinary field—a case we must make as educators as often as we do as scholars.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1353/eal.2023.a903792
Mary Anne Lutz
approach to thinking about time-space in nineteenth-century American literature than a sense of the array of fruitful approaches currently being brought to bear on this question. By bypassing recent worn-out methodological polemics in literary studies in favor of positioning the volume within a much wider interdisciplinary inquiry into time-space, the introduction sets up a framework that both highlights and celebrates the volume’s eclecticism, in both its methods and its objects. Book history appears alongside information studies, new media theory alongside editorial theory, theories of environmental agency alongside a variety of historicisms, reflections on archival absences alongside detailed close readings of canonical texts, with no sense of dissonance. The editors declare that this is “American literature 2.0” (11). I worry that this tidy formulation—with its suggestion of both trendiness and future obsolescence—does not do justice to this volume’s significant achievement. While many of the essays make compelling cases for new ways of wrestling with space-time, I finished the book less with a clear sense of the future of such conversations than with a sense of the robustness of today’s scholarship. In both the insights of its individual essays and its overarching methodological pluralism, this volume is a heartening testament to the vibrancy of nineteenth-century American literary studies right now. I hope that the approach to literature on display in Neither the Time nor the Place—its treatment of literature as “an object never given in advance, always under construction, often disputed, and opened up” by an array of methodological approaches (Castiglia and Gillman 11)—is adopted widely and endures for a long time.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1353/eal.2023.a903786
Michael J. Schreffler
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1353/eal.2023.a903794
S. Cook
promise seems to be a common theme in the study—in similar fashion, Victor Séjour’s brilliant literary career demonstrates transnational perspectives and intercultural literary strategies that would eventually be obscured by the categorical opposition of “American” and “French” literature. (As evidence, Séjour has yet to become a standard inclusion in anthologies of American literature, despite his clear qualifications.) While the decline of New Orleans’s theatrical diversity can be read as a jeremiad, this study also serves as a reminder for early American literary and cultural studies: exploring such historical dead ends may yet help us to remember American culture’s once-possible futures. The Crescent City’s playhouses were never interracial or intercultural utopias, of course, but they nevertheless showed the potential of performance in a distinctly “Creole America,” in which plays were staged in the gaps between cultures, as lively, complex dramas of identity, affiliation, and belonging played out against a hemispheric backdrop of imperial nostalgia and national expansion.
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{"title":"Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs: A Guide to Nahuatl Writing by Gordon Whittaker (review)","authors":"J. Stair","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42540176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines the longer literary history of religious nativism that coalesced in early US perceptions of the Caribbean. Reading Leonora Sansay's 1808 Secret History alongside antebellum anti-Catholic propaganda, it demonstrates how early Americans relied on depictions of the revolutionary West Indies to validate ongoing Protestant concerns about Catholicism's perceived threat to moral and racial purity. Portrayed as spaces of transgression among diversely raced bodies, Sansay's Saint Domingue and Cuba anticipate the anxieties that would arise in later anti-Catholic writing. Such depictions illuminate a more geographically diffuse and historically prolonged discourse of nativist thinking, one wherein the revolutionary West Indies comes to serve as a touchstone for forging an enduring partnership between whiteness and an implicitly Protestant US.
{"title":"The \"Awful Disclosures\" of the West Indies: Nativist Genealogies and Catholic Blackness in Leonora Sansay's Secret History","authors":"Anamaria Seglie Clawson","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the longer literary history of religious nativism that coalesced in early US perceptions of the Caribbean. Reading Leonora Sansay's 1808 Secret History alongside antebellum anti-Catholic propaganda, it demonstrates how early Americans relied on depictions of the revolutionary West Indies to validate ongoing Protestant concerns about Catholicism's perceived threat to moral and racial purity. Portrayed as spaces of transgression among diversely raced bodies, Sansay's Saint Domingue and Cuba anticipate the anxieties that would arise in later anti-Catholic writing. Such depictions illuminate a more geographically diffuse and historically prolonged discourse of nativist thinking, one wherein the revolutionary West Indies comes to serve as a touchstone for forging an enduring partnership between whiteness and an implicitly Protestant US.","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44209543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Through the Lens of Slavery: A Look at Early America","authors":"M. Schwartz","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45902939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Early American Studies Scholarship beyond the Book\" (review)","authors":"Kaitlin Tonti","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45903078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America by Matthew Dougherty (review)","authors":"E. Fenton","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47752470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Literature Association (review)","authors":"C. Black","doi":"10.1353/eal.2023.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44043,"journal":{"name":"EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43107377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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