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Author:   Lindsay V. Reckson (Haverford College, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781108477505

ISBN 10:   110847750
Pages:   381
Publication Date:   18 August 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: We have never been post-reconstruction Lindsay V. Reckson; I. Transitive States: 1. Radical pasts, radical futures Michelle Coghlan; 2. Unsettled colonialisms Mary Zaborskis; 3. Secularism, race, and sex Peter Coviello; 4. Sex and the suicide plot Dana Seitler; 5. Virtual subjects Katherine Biers; II. Post-Reconstruction Aesthetics: 6. Lyrics of the color line Sonya Posmentier; 7. Experimental realisms Natalia Cecire; 8. Species of sentiment Lisa Mendelman; 9. The micro-climates of regionalism William Gleason; 10. Racial topographies and the poetics of mass culture Alexandra Socarides; III. Old Materialisms: 11. Oil Jamie L. Jones; 12. Waste Stephanie Foote; 13. Blood Nancy Bentley; 14. Color against realism Nicholas Gaskill; IV. Immanent Techniques: 15. Francis Harper's reconstruction Brigitte Fielder; 16. Emma Lazarus's cosmopolitanism Sharon Oster; 17. Henry James's temporalities Pamela Thurschwell; 18. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's pragmatism Cécile Roudeau; 19. Nicholas Black Elk's cosmology (or, post-reconstructing Black Elk) Matthew A. Taylor.

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'... [the volume] expertly presents a series of richly critical narratives that illuminate both the period's many unique cultural features and their ongoing, equally positive and negative relevance.' Nicolas S. Witschi, American Literary Realism

Author Information

Lindsay V. Reckson is Associate Professor of English at Haverford College. She was the recipient of an ACLS Fellowship for her first book, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press, 2020). Her writing has appeared in American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, American Religious Liberalism, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Keywords for American Cultural Studies.

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