Situation Critical

Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique. Bringing together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars, editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly demonstrate that critique is about acknowledging that we are never simply writing better or worse accounts of the past, but accounts of the present as well. The contributors examine topics ranging from the indeterminacy of knowledge and history to Black speculative writing and nineteenth-century epistemology, the role of the unconscious in settler colonialism, and early American writing about masturbation, repression, religion, and secularism and their respective influence on morality. The contributors also offer vital new interpretations of major lines of thought in the history of critique-especially those relating to Freud and Foucault-that will be valuable both for scholars of early American studies and for scholars of the humanities and interpretive social sciences more broadly.Contributors. Max Cavitch, Brian Connolly, Matthew Crow, John J. Garcia, Christopher Looby, Michael Meranze, Mark J. Miller, Justine S. Murison, Britt Rusert, Ana Schwartz, Joan W. Scott, Jordan Alexander Stein

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478026082

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman.Brian Connolly is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and the author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America.

Recensioner i media

In Situation Critical, Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly issue a rousing call for a return to critique, arguing for the importance of the study of early America to some of the most urgent questions of twenty-first-century life. Locating contemporary ideas about sovereignty, race, sexuality, justice, and power in the unsettled state of colonial and early national American culture, the essays collected here engage early America not as a stable ground or point of origin but rather as a particularly fertile site for a critical history, one that brings empirical and theoretical approaches into dynamic relation.” - Meredith L. McGill, Professor of English, Rutgers University “What an edifying delight to think along with the scholars gathered in Situation Critical, whose objects of analysis range from Puritan annoyance to Melvillean justice, queer possibility to secular rectitude, cultures of abolition to settler colonial fantasy. Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly have convened essays that are surpassingly lively, nimble, exacting, and generous in their engagement with the amplest possibilities of critique. Situation Critical is a greatly welcome intervention.” - Peter Coviello, author of (Is There God after Prince? Dispatches from an Age of Last Things)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Situation Critical / Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly 1I. Theory for Early America1. Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History / Joan W. Scott 332. Foucault’s Oedipus / Michael Meranze 52II. Subjects of Early America3. Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable / Ana Schwartz 734. Michael Widdlesworth’s Queer Orthography / Christopher Looby 1035. George Whitefield’s Sexual Character / Mark J. Miller 139III. Fantasies of Realism6. Secularism, Hypocrisy, and the Afterlives of Thomas Paine / Justine S. Murison 1777. No Matter: Persisting Rationalisms in Antebellum Black Thought / Britt Rusert 2028. Queering Abolition / Jordan Alexander Stein 223IV. Power, Knowledge, Justice9. Equality in the Time of Moby-Dick / Matthew Crow 24110. Antebellum or Interbellum? / John J. Garcia 263List of Contributors 287Index 289