WRITING THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

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

Writing the Long Nineteenth Century will publish the innovative work in American literary studies that is emerging in the "long" nineteenth century (from the Revolutionary period through early modernism).  It will focus on the relationship of formal and material literary production to the unprecedented circulation of people, commodities and technologies during this period, and to the profoundly unsettling ideas about political and social belonging attendant on revolutionary movements in Europe, the Caribbean and the United States. Defined by its reworking of the period, its reopening of the transnational perspectives that informed American literature in the 19th century, and its marriage of the new archival and cultural work to literary studies, the series will engage with complex networks of influence, debate, circulation, and appropriation. Writing the Long Nineteenth Century will take seriously the challenge to place the study of nineteenth-century American culture in its broader multi- and transnational contexts by seeking work that unsettles familiar cultural formations.