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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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