Unsettled states : nineteenth-century American literary studies / edited by Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the "long" nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the f.

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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: On Moving Ground -- PART I: ARCHIVES UNBOUND -- 1. Confederates in the Hispanic Attic: The Archive against Itself -- 2. Historical Totality and the African American Archive -- 3. Race, Reenactment, and the "Natural-Born Citizen" -- 4. Doing Justice to the Archive: Beyond Literature -- PART II: STATES OF EXCEPTION -- 5. Unsettled Life: Early Liberia's Epistolary Equivocations -- 6. The News at the Ends of the Earth: Polar Periodicals -- 7. Feeling Like a State: Writing the 1863 New York City Draft Riots -- 8. Impersonating the State of Exception.

PART III: SPECULATIVE SEXUALITIES -- 9. Eat, Sex, Race -- 10. Connecticut Yankings: Mark Twain and the Masturbating Dude -- 11. What Came Before -- P.S.: A Coda -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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