Part I. De-formations of History
1: Diedrich Knickerbocker, Regular Bred Historian
2: Unhistorical Fictions: Sedgwick and Neal
Part II. Reformations of the Present
3: Emerson's Strong Present Tense
4: Frederick Douglass's Historical Turn
5: Israel Potter; or, Hither and Thither History
Coda: #StayWoke
Jeffrey Insko is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century US literature and culture. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, Early American Literature, and ESQ.
The not-to-be-missed chapter of the volume is its model
Introduction, which offers an impressively sizeable yet remarkably
efficient survey of existing scholarship. The scholar is able to
say something new because he pays careful attention to what has
already been said, in a full-throated, interdisciplinary fashion.
History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now is a strong, clear,
and impressive example of how real scholarship gets done.
*Jordan Alexander Stein, Modern Language Review*
A bracing coda, "#STAYWOKE," clarifies the book's political
investment in interpreting past events and texts in light of
present needs...he makes a strong argument that we cannot avoid
encountering the past through today's politics.
*Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies*
Scholars will value Insko's well-researched insights, and students
will appreciate his knack for explaining complex ideas clearly and
succinctly.
*J.W. Miller, CHOICE*
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