PART AND THE WHOLE IN EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE, PRINT CULTURE, AND ART; ED. BY MATTHEW PETHERS
"The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices-from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments-often overlooked by criti...
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LEWISBURG
BUCKNELL UNIV PRESS
2024
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2024] |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
- Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch
- Part I - Partial Histories
- Chapter 1: Reading for Unreadability; or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records
- Lori Rogers-Stokes
- Chapter 2: Textural Scholarship: Susan Howe's Mary Rowlandson
- Marion Rust
- Chapter 3: 'Composing my resentments': Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight's The Journal of Madam Knight
- Nicholas K. Mohlmann
- Chapter 4: Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination
- Daniel Diez Couch
- Part II - Fragmentary Communities
- Chapter 5: Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces
- Keri Holt
- Chapter 6: Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive
- John Saillant
- Chapter 7: Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America
- D. Berton Emerson
- Part III - Visible Assemblages
- Chapter 8: The Early National Picturesque
- Laurel Hankins
- Chapter 9: Visualizing the Incompleteness of 'Mound-Builder' Ruins
- Lisa West
- Chapter 10: Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage
- Amy Morris
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
- Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch
- Part I
- Partial Histories
- Chapter 1: Reading for Unreadability; or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records
- Lori Rogers-Stokes
- Chapter 2: Textural Scholarship: Susan Howe's Mary Rowlandson
- Marion Rust
- Chapter 3: 'Composing my resentments': Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight's The Journal of Madam Knight
- Nicholas K. Mohlmann
- Chapter 4: Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination
- Daniel Diez Couch
- Part II
- Fragmentary Communities
- Chapter 5: Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces
- Keri Holt
- Chapter 6: Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive
- John Saillant
- Chapter 7: Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America
- D. Berton Emerson
- Part III
- Visible Assemblages
- Chapter 8: The Early National Picturesque
- Laurel Hankins
- Chapter 9: Visualizing the Incompleteness of 'Mound-Builder' Ruins
- Lisa West
- Chapter 10: Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage
- Amy Morris
- Notes on Contributors
- Index