{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-nineteenth-century-american-literature-9780199355891","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow do we approach the rich field of nineteenth-century American literature? How might we recalibrate the coordinates of critical vision and open up new areas of investigation? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo answer such questions, this volume brings together 23 original essays written by leading scholars in American literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy examining specific novels, poems, essays, diaries, and other literary examples, the authors confront head-on the implications, scope, and scale of their analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe chapters foreground methodological concerns to assess the challenges of transnational perspectives, disability studies, environmental criticism, affect studies, gender analysis, and other cutting-edge approaches.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e is thus both critically incisive and sharply practical, inviting attention to how readers read, how critics critique, and how\u003cbr\u003einterpreters interpret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt offers forceful strategies for rethinking protest novels, women's writing, urban literature, slave narratives, and popular fiction, just to name a few of the wide array of topics and genres covered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume, rather than surveying established ideas in studies of nineteenth-century American literature registers what is happening now and anticipates what will shape the field's future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Russ Castronovo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.56h x 6.88w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199355891\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRuss Castronovo\u003c\/strong\u003e is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era (University of Chicago Press, 2007); Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Duke UP, 2001), and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (University of California Press, 1996).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934207066227,"sku":"0199355894","price":103.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8b553c51-5113-47fc-bd92-f7494557d8dd.jpg?v=1647877688","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-nineteenth-century-american-literature-9780199355891","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}