Crossings in nineteenth-century American culture : junctures of time, space, self and politics

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures = vii
• Contributors = viii
• Introduction / Edward Sugden = 1
• Part I. Elsewheres
• 1 Material/Immaterial : Frederick Douglass and the ‘Moral Chemistry
• of the Universe’, 1855 / Cody Marrs = 19
• 2 Earth/Atmosphere : The Leonid Meteor Shower, 1833 / Gordon Fraser = 29
• 3 Body/Spirit : Walt Whitman’s Hicksite Quaker Poetics, 1855 / Rachel Heffner-Burns = 41
• Part II. Excess Identities
• 4 Latinx/Confederate : Loreta Janeta Velazquez as a Cross-Dressing
• Soldier, 1861 / Leigh Johnson = 59
• 5 Philippines/United States : David Fagen Defects to the Filipino
• Army, 1899 / Spencer Tricker = 71
• 6 White/Not-White : Robert Montgomery Bird’s Racial
• Transformations, 1839 / Hannah Lauren Murray = 88
• 7 Ecology/Radical Politics : Thoreau’s Science of Civil
• Disobedience, 1849 / Michael Jonik = 101
• Part III. Chance Encounters
• 8 Mexico/Britain : A History of Julia Pastrana’s Teeth, 1860-2013 / Marissa López = 123
• 9 Matanzas, Cuba/Keswick, England : Maria Gowen Brooks
• Visits Robert Southey, 1831 / Erin C. Singer = 146
• 10 England/New England : A British Quaker and a Fugitive from
• Slavery Encounter Each Other on a Train, 1850 / Bridget Bennett = 158
• Part IV. Impossible Systems
• 11 Slave Labour/Wage Labour : Reading Bartleby’s Refusals, 1850 / Tomos Hughes = 177
• 12 Antiquity/Modernity : An Issue of Puck Magazine, 1889 / Mark Storey = 195
• 13 Democracy/State : James Fenimore Cooper on the Frontier,
• 1826/1757 / Cécile Roudeau = 206
• 14 Ulster, 1785/Pennsylvania, 1817/Ulster, 1845 : James McHenry’s
• Palimpsest of Anglo Settler Colonialism / Jared Hickman = 222
• Index = 246