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Author:   Travis M. Foster (Villanova University, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.471kg
ISBN:  

9781108815291

ISBN 10:   1108815294
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   30 June 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Travis M. Foster; I. Genres: 1. Bodies in early US-Atlantic theater Marvin McAllister; 2. Sentimentalism and the feeling body Claudia Stokes; 3. Slavery, disability and the Black body/White body complex in the American slave narrative Maurice Wallace; 4. Monstrous bodies of the American gothic Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet; 5. Bodies at war Colleen Glenney Boggs; 6. Decolonizing the body in multiethnic American fiction Sony Coráñez Bolton; 7. Science fiction's humanoid bodies of the future Frances Tran; 8. Contemporary North American transgender literature: realness, fantasy, and the body Stephanie Clare; II. Critical Methodologies: 9. Feminist theory, feminist criticism, and the sex/gender distinction Christine 'Xine' Yao; 10. Reading bodies and textual materialities Thomas Constantinesco; 11. How to read disabled bodies in history Erica Fretwell; 12. How to read disabled bodies now: crip of color critique Anna Hinton; 13. Health humanities, illness, and the body in American literature Lindsey Grubbs; 14. The Indigenous body in American literature Sean Teuton; 15. The Black Body and the reading of race Christine Okoth; 16. Ecocriticism and the body Delia Byrnes.

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Travis M. Foster is an associate professor of American literature at Villanova University, where he is also the academic director of Gender and Women's Studies. His book Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States was published in 2019 as part of Oxford University Press's Studies in American Literary History Series.

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