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What’s in a Date? Temporalities of Early American Literature
In “What’s in a Date? Temporalities of Early American Literature,” Sandra M. Gustafson considers the interpretive and pedagogical considerations involved in dividing American literary history at four different points: 1789, 1800, 1820, and 1830. Each date corresponds to certain conventions and resources in the field, and they produce different and sometimes conflicting literary historical narratives. Gustafson also reflects on topics including transnationalism and multilingualism emerging in the field.
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Afterword, and Farewell
In her final issue as editor, Gustafson reflects on her ten years of experience heading up Early American Literature and discusses the changing contours of the field.
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Reimagining the Literature of the Modern Republic
Raúl Coronado'S Ambitious and Beautifully Realized Book About The Literature Of Failed Republican Revolution in Late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Texas is a major contribution to the expanding field of scholarship that recovers, contextualizes, and interprets Tatino/a writing. This wide-ranging study traces the influence of scholastic thought in Spain and Spanish America, culminating in a discussion of the resonances of that intellectual tradition after 1848, as newly conquered Tejanos faced expropriation and violence by United States Americans. Coronado shows how the ideas of Thomas Aquinas and his Spanish interpreters—notably Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), a Jesuit and the leading member of the Thomist School of Salamanca, whose ideas were broadly influential in the Hispanic world—presented a durable alternative to the liberal philosophy of John Tocke and Adam Smith. In part through Suárez's influence, the Roman Catholic concept of the corpus mysticum fed into a distinctive vision of the modern republic that elevated the pueblo over the individual. That this alternative tradition failed initially to gain political and cultural ground explains the melancholy title of Coronado's study, while the possibility of recuperating this history as a usable past animates the project as a whole.
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Democracy and Discussion: Albion Tourgée on Race and the Town Meeting Ideal
Dewey and his contemporaries chose to skirt the relationship between racial diversity and the town meeting ideal, but they need not have: there is a history to the idea that the town meeting could be used to dismantle the legacy of slavery and create a racially integrated society. A leading proponent of this view was Albion Tourgée, a Radical Republican and Civil War veteran, man of letters, and influential civil rights lawyer. In 1868, Tourgée played a leading role in the state constitutional convention, where he advocated for the creation of self-governing townships. He believed that the racial and class inequities of the South would only be resolved through the exercise of democratic self-rule rooted in the town meeting.
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What's in a Date? Temporalities of Early American Literature
It's time for a pop quiz. you have ten minutes. (is your heart racing? take a deep breath.) What major events in American literature and American history took place in and around the following years? (1) 1789 (2) 1800 (3) 1820 (4) 1830
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Equality as Singularity: Rethinking Literature and Democracy
At least since the age of democratic revolutions, a broad array of literary works has engaged with democracy as practice and ideal, and literature has contributed in fundamental ways to the unfolding of democratic thought. But in recent years \"democracy\" has become a suspect term, associated with \"neoliberalism,\" or it has been cast as a utopian horizon rather than considered as a flexible and contested concept. In \"Equality as Singularity: Rethinking Literature and Democracy,\" Sandra M. Gustafson explores the role of language and symbolization and the place of literature in the emergence of democratic thought. In a neopragmatist spirit that moves beyond critique to develop a larger framework of democratic meaning-making, she considers the theoretical writings of Pierre Rosanvallon on counter-democracy and the society of equals, and she identifies points of overlap and complementarity in Danielle Allen's work on the Declaration of Independence and democratic citizenship. Gustafson then turns to the fiction of Saul Bellow and Upton Sinclair to show how unresolved conflicts inherited from progressivism and social democracy resonate in contemporary political and literary theory. She suggests how the fresh articulations of equality offered by Rosanvallon and Allen can help us to move beyond those conflicts and embrace a broader spectrum of literary works. She concludes with a brief reading of Orhan Pamuk's Snow to show how a neopragmatist critical praxis offers a distinctive approach to the political resonances of contemporary literature.
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\Early American Literature\ at 50
With the creation of the Early American Literature Book Prize, to be awarded in alternate years to first books and to second or later books, we aim to project the journal's strengths to a larger audience by highlighting monographs that display methodological creativity, archival depth, theoretical sophistication, and broad engagement with existing scholarship. [...]the journal's orientation from the late '60s until the mid-1990s highlighted Puritan writing and the postBicentennial interest in narratives of revolution and national identity.\\n He invites us to focus on what he terms the \"third text\" of the archive, which includes \"works written by people who were neither masters nor slaves, observers whose relationship to the institution of slavery was tenuous, and whose intentions were driven by goals that were sometimes at odds with the systematizing function of the archive of enslavement.\"
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