Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I. Citizenship
Chapter 1. Roma Redux: The Analogical Nineteenth Century
Chapter 2. African Americans and the Panama Canal Zone as a Third Space
Chapter 3. "Something Awful in the Voice of the Multitude": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred on Power and Social Struggle
Part II. Environment
Chapter 4. Uneven Improvement: Swamplands and the Matter of Slavery in Stowe, Northup, and Thoreau
Chapter 5. Vanishing Sounds: Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction
Part III. Historiography
Chapter 6. Beyond Space: The Speculative Dimension of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Chapter 7. Exorbitant Optics and Lunatic Pleasures
Chapter 8. The Other South: Time, Space, and Counterfactual Histories of the Civil War
Chapter 9. Apocalypse Then: Southern Speculative Fiction, Slavery, and Civil War, 1836-1860
Part IV. Media
Chapter 10. Editing Melville's Pierre: Text, Nation, Time
Chapter 11. American Literary Studies @ Scale
Chapter 12. Place Out of Time: LatinX Studies, Migrant Fictions, and Israel Potter
Part V. Bodies
Chapter 13. Shame and the Emotional Life of the Realist Novel
Chapter 14. Ghosts of Another Time: Spiritualism, Photography, Enchantment
Chapter 15. Not to Mention: (the marmorean unconscious)
Notes
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments