Speculative Endeavors

Cultures of Knowledge and Capital in the Long Nineteenth Century

AvSelina Foltinek,Karin Hoepker

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Speculative endeavours contributes to an emerging field of scholarship that focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society. It sheds light on unofficial knowledges such as insider information, rumour, gossip, slander, emphasising how knowledges excluded by institutional discourses and authorities form a core part of the developing market economy. Ranging from the Early Republic to the Gilded Age, contributions analyse entanglements of financial, cultural, and social capital. They focus on social actors who differ from the newly minted ideal of the (free, white, male) entrepreneurial individual. The speculative endeavours discussed include illicit communications located in slave quarters and domestic spaces, communal interventions into a commercialised print market, debates on immigrant fiduciary and legal competency, and disciplinary techniques of pecuniary pedagogy. Taken together they offer unprecedented interdisciplinary insights into an emerging age of capital.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-29
Mått:138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526182159

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Selina Foltinek is a doctoral candidate of American Studies at the University of Bayreuth and a teacher of History, English, and Political ScienceKarin Hoepker is Associate Professor of North American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-NürnbergKatrin Horn is Professor of Gender Studies at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Greifswald

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Introduction: Managing Knowledge and Capital in the Nineteenth Century – Karin Hoepker and Katrin HornPart I: Capital, Reputation, and Legal Recognition1. Sometimes it IS worse to be talked about: Epistemic Surplus and Social Capital – Karen Adkins2. Rumor as Speculative Practice: Reports of Slave Uprisings in the Nineteenth-Century US South – Sebastion Jobs3. US Immigrants, Remittances, and the Courts, 1904–25 – Atiba PertillaPart II: Commerce, Print Culture, and the Circulation of Knowledge4. Epistemic Style and the “Knowing Unknown” of Racial Capitalism in W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Scorn” – Alexander Starre5. Black Editorship and the Economics of Print: Pauline E. Hopkins and the Colored Press Conventions – Andrew Erlandson 6. “Interesting to Ladies”: How Foreign Correspondents Made Gossip a Profession – Selina Foltinek and Katrin HornPart III: Pedagogies and Practices of the Home7. Raising Capitalist Citizens: Pecuniary Pedagogies and Belonging in the United States, 1820–1900 – Jaclyn Schultz8. Genteel Performance, Embodied Knowledge, and the Quest for Status in US American Parlors – Carola Bebermeier9. Speculative Knowledge: Ellen Richards and Science of the Home, 1870–1911 – Serenity SutherlandIndex