The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is author of three books: Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom; Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era.

[This book] deserves to be an influential guide for future students.

• Introduction: Shifts, Zigzags, Impacts ; Russ Castronovo ; Shifts ; 1. Paul Giles, "Antipodean American Geography: Washington Irving's "Globular" Narratives" ; 2. John Ernest, "The Art of Chaos: Community and African American Literary Traditions" ; 3. Jordan Stein, "Are 'American Novels' Novels?: Mardi and the Problem of Boring Books" ; 4. Ellen Samuels, Reading Race through Disability: Slavery and Agency in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and "Those Extraordinary Twins" ; 5. Jesse Aleman, "The Invention of Mexican America" ; 6. Nancy Bentley, "Creole Kinship: Privacy and the Novel in the New World" ; 7. Shelley Streeby, "Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, Jose Marti, and Haymarket" ; 8. Anna Brickhouse, "Transatlantic vs. Hemispheric: Toni Morrison's Long Nineteenth Century" ; Zigzags ; 9. Robert S. Levine, "Temporality, Race, and Empire in Cooper's The Deerslayer: The Beginning of the End" ; 10. Jeffrey Steele, "The Visible and Invisible City: Antebellum Writers and Urban Space" ; 11. Colleen Glenney Boggs, "Animals and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature" ; 12. Shirley Samuels, "Archives of Publishing and Gender: Historical Codes in Literary Analysis" ; 13. Gregory S. Jackson, "The Novel as Board Game: Homiletic Identification and Forms of Interactive Narrative" ; 14. Maurice S. Lee, "Skepticism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Philosophy" ; 15. Jared Hickman, "On the Redundancy of "Transnational American Studies" ; Impacts ; 16. Travis Foster, "How to Read: Regionalism and the Ladies' Home Journal" ; 17. Elisa Tamarkin, "Literature and the News" ; 18. Paul Gilmore, "Reading Minds in the Nineteenth Century" ; 19. Elizabeth Duquette, "Making an Example: American Literature as Philosophy" ; 20. James Dawes, "Abolition and Activism: The Present Uses of Literary Criticism" ; 21. Susan Gillman, "Whose Protest Novel? Ramona, the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Indian" ; 22. Stephanie Lemenager, "Nineteenth-Century American Literature without Nature? Rethinking Environmental Criticism" ; 23. Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, "Action, Action, Action": Nineteenth-Century Literature for Twenty-first-Century Citizenship?" ; Index