Situation Critical
Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies
1st Edition
Published on 8. March 2024
312 pages
978-1-4780-5930-1 (ISBN)
Description
The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to Early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique.
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Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman.
Brian Connolly is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and the author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America.
Brian Connolly is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and the author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Situation Critical / Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly 1
I. Theory for Early America
1. Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History / Joan W. Scott 33
2. Foucault's Oedipus / Michael Meranze 52
II. Subjects of Early America
3. Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable / Ana Schwartz 73
4. Michael Widdlesworth's Queer Orthography / Christopher Looby 103
5. George Whitefield's Sexual Character / Mark J. Miller 139
III. Fantasies of Realism
6. Secularism, Hypocrisy, and the Afterlives of Thomas Paine / Justine S. Murison 177
7. No Matter: Persisting Rationalisms in Antebellum Black Thought / Britt Rusert 202
8. Queering Abolition / Jordan Alexander Stein 223
IV. Power, Knowledge, Justice
9. Equality in the Time of Moby-Dick / Matthew Crow 241
10. Antebellum or Interbellum? / John J. Garcia 263
List of Contributors 287
Index 289
Introduction: Situation Critical / Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly 1
I. Theory for Early America
1. Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History / Joan W. Scott 33
2. Foucault's Oedipus / Michael Meranze 52
II. Subjects of Early America
3. Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable / Ana Schwartz 73
4. Michael Widdlesworth's Queer Orthography / Christopher Looby 103
5. George Whitefield's Sexual Character / Mark J. Miller 139
III. Fantasies of Realism
6. Secularism, Hypocrisy, and the Afterlives of Thomas Paine / Justine S. Murison 177
7. No Matter: Persisting Rationalisms in Antebellum Black Thought / Britt Rusert 202
8. Queering Abolition / Jordan Alexander Stein 223
IV. Power, Knowledge, Justice
9. Equality in the Time of Moby-Dick / Matthew Crow 241
10. Antebellum or Interbellum? / John J. Garcia 263
List of Contributors 287
Index 289
