Turns of Event : Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion / Hester Blum.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Academic Positioning Systems / Blum, Hester -- Part I. Provocations -- Chapter 1. Turn It Up: Affects, Structures of Feeling, and Face- to-Face Education / Sanborn, Geoffrey -- Chapter 2. Literary History, Book History, and Media Studies / McGill, Meredith L. -- Chapter 3. The Cartographic Turn and American Literary Studies: Of Maps, Mappings, and the Limits of Metaphor / Brückner, Martin -- Chapter 4. Twists and Turns / Castiglia, Christopher -- Part II. Turn-by-Turn Directions: Transnational, Hemispheric, Oceanic -- Chapter 5. Of Turns and Paradigm Shifts: Humanities, Science, and Transnational American Studies / Bauer, Ralph -- Chapter 6. The Geopolitics and Tropologies of the American Turn / Allewaert, Monique -- Chapter 7. The Caribbean Turn in C19 American Literary Studies / Goudie, Sean X. -- Chapter 8. Oceanic Turns and American Literary History in Global Context / Burnham, Michelle -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

American literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions over the past two decades that have been consistently described as "turns," whether transnational, hemispheric, postnational, spatial, temporal, postsecular, aesthetic, or affective. In Turns of Event, Hester Blum and a splendid roster of contributors explore the conditions that have produced such movements. Offering an overview of the state of the study of nineteenth-century American literature, Blum contends that the field's propensity to turn, to reinvent itself constantly without dissolution, is one of its greatest strengths.The essays in the volume's first half, "Provocations," trace the theoretical and methodological development and institutional emergence of certain turns, as well as providing calls to arms. The geopolitically oriented turns toward the transnational, hemispheric, and oceanic (whether Atlantic, Caribbean, Pacific, or archipelagic in focus) have held a certain prevalence in American studies in recent years, and the second half of this volume presents a series of scholarly essays that exemplify these subfields.Taken together, these essays survey the field of American literary studies as it moves beyond new historicism as its primary methodology and evolves in light of ideological, conceptual, and material considerations. There is much at stake in these movements: the consequences and opportunities range from citational and evidentiary practices to canon expansion, resource allocation, and institutional futurity.Contributors: Monique Allewaert, Ralph Bauer, Hester Blum, Martin Brückner, Michelle Burnham, Christopher Castiglia, Sean X. Goudie, Meredith L. McGill, Geoffrey Sanborn.

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