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The Clay Sanskrit Library
Early American Places
The American Literatures Initiative
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AMERICA AND THE LONG 19TH CENTURY

General Editors:
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth McHenry, New York University
and Priscilla Wald, Duke University.

America and the Long 19th Century will publish innovative work in American literary studies from the revolutionary movements of the late 18th century through the early years of modernism at the turn of the 20th century. The series will focus on the relationship of formal and material literary production to the dynamic circulation of people, commodities, and technologies. By linking new archival and cultural research to literary studies, the series will feature works that engage with complex networks of influence, exchange, and appropriation. It will foreground the profoundly generative ideas about political and social life—animated as it was by racial, gender, and class formations—that emerged from the revolutionary movements and shifting geographies of the period. America and the Long 19th Century places the study of 19th-century American culture in its broader multi- and transnational contexts by publishing work that unsettles familiar cultural formations, including the presumptive stability of American literature itself.

General Submission Guidelines

featured books:    
 

Black Frankenstein
The Making of an American Metaphor
Elizabeth Young

Neither Fugitive nor Free
Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
Edlie L. Wong

 

forthcoming:

Racial Innocence
Performing Childhood and Race from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the New Negro Movement
Robin Bernstein

Empire's Proxy
American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines
Meg Wesling

Bodies of Reform
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded-Age America
James Salazar

Shadowing the White Man's Burden
U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
Gretchen Murphy