Table of Contents

Introduction: Shifts, Zigzags, Impacts
Russ Castronovo

Shifts

1. Paul Giles, "Antipodean American Geography: Washington Irving's "Globular" Narratives"

2. John Ernest, "The Art of Chaos: Community and African American Literary Traditions"

3. Jordan Stein, "Are 'American Novels' Novels?: Mardi and the Problem of Boring Books"

4. Ellen Samuels, Reading Race through Disability: Slavery and Agency in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and "Those Extraordinary Twins""

5. Jesse Alemán, "The Invention of Mexican America"

6. Nancy Bentley, "Creole Kinship: Privacy and the Novel in the New World"

7. Shelley Streeby, "Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket"

8. Anna Brickhouse, "Transatlantic vs. Hemispheric: Toni Morrison's Long Nineteenth Century"

Zigzags

9. Robert S. Levine, "Temporality, Race, and Empire in Cooper's The Deerslayer: The Beginning of the End"

10. Jeffrey Steele, "The Visible and Invisible City: Antebellum Writers and Urban Space"

11. Colleen Glenney Boggs, "Animals and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"

12. Shirley Samuels, "Archives of Publishing and Gender: Historical Codes in Literary Analysis"

13. Gregory S. Jackson, "The Novel as Board Game: Homiletic Identification and Forms of Interactive Narrative"

14. Maurice S. Lee, "Skepticism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Philosophy"

15. Jared Hickman, "On the Redundancy of "Transnational American Studies"
Impacts

16. Travis Foster, "How to Read: Regionalism and the Ladies' Home Journal"

17. Elisa Tamarkin, "Literature and the News"

18. Paul Gilmore, "Reading Minds in the Nineteenth Century"

19. Elizabeth Duquette, "Making an Example: American Literature as Philosophy"

20. James Dawes, "Abolition and Activism: The Present Uses of Literary Criticism"

21. Susan Gillman, "Whose Protest Novel? Ramona, the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Indian"

22. Stephanie Lemenager, "Nineteenth-Century American Literature without Nature? Rethinking Environmental Criticism"

23. Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, "Action, Action, Action": Nineteenth-Century Literature for Twenty-first-Century Citizenship?"

Index

About the Author

Russ Castronovo is is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era (University of Chicago Press, 2007); Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Duke UP, 2001), and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (University of California
Press, 1996).

Reviews

The essays are uniformly high in quality,
*Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Modern Language Review*