ISBN10: 1421427133, ISBN13: 9781421427133, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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ISBN10: 1421427133, ISBN13: 9781421427133, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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ISBN10: 1421427133, ISBN13: 9781421427133, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD] Softcover Paperback. A collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature.It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessaryeven illuminatingpractice.In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading Americanists gamely fashion new, unorthodox literary periodsfrom 600 B.C.E. to the present, from the Age of Van Buren to the Age of Microeconomics. They bring to light literary and cultural histories that have been obscured by traditional timelines and raise provocative questions. What is our definition of "modernism" if we imagine it stretching from 1865 to 1965 instead of 1890 to 1945? How does the captivity narrative change when we consider it as a contemporary, not just a "colonial," genre? What does the course of American literature look like set against the backdrop of federal denials of Native sovereignty or ...