Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture Provides new terminology for considering nineteenth-century selfhoodMaps hitherto unexplored terrains, real and imaginary, in nineteenth-century AmericaDefines alternative and often surprising political systems that framed nineteenth-century American literature Across four parts of exploratory, creative and speculative essays, this book provides provoca