This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century. The Part and the Whole recovers the distinct aesthetics of the incomplete, retelling the story of American culture by reorienting our collective understanding toward texts and objects that have often been critically ignored.
This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century. The Part and the Whole recovers the distinct aesthetics of the incomplete, retelling the story of American culture by reorienting our collective understanding toward texts and objects that have often been critically ignored.
MATTHEW PETHERS is an associate professor of American intellectual and cultural history at the University of Nottingham in the UK. He is the editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing and is currently coediting volume two of The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown (Bucknell University Press). DANIEL DIEZ COUCH is an associate professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado, where he teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. He is the author of American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic.
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Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch Part I – Partial Histories Chapter 1: Reading for Unreadability; or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records Lori Rogers-Stokes Chapter 2: Textural Scholarship: Susan Howe’s Mary Rowlandson Marion Rust Chapter 3: ‘Composing my resentments’: Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight’s The Journal of Madam Knight Nicholas K. Mohlmann Chapter 4: Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination Daniel Diez Couch Part II – Fragmentary Communities Chapter 5: Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces Keri Holt Chapter 6: Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive John Saillant Chapter 7: Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America D. Berton Emerson Part III – Visible Assemblages Chapter 8: The Early National Picturesque Laurel Hankins Chapter 9: Visualizing the Incompleteness of ‘Mound-Builder’ Ruins Lisa West Chapter 10: Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage Amy Morris Notes on Contributors Index Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art 1 Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch PA R T O N E: Partial Histories 1 Reading for Unreadability; or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records 33 Lori Rogers-Stokes 2 “Textural Scholarship”: Susan Howe’s Mary Rowlandson 49 Marion Rust 3 “Composing My Resentments”: Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight’s The Journal of Madam Knight 76 Nicholas K. Mohlmann 4 Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination 95 Daniel Diez Couch PA R T TWO: Fragmentary Communities 5 Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces 117 Keri Holt 6 Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive 151 John Saillant 7 Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America 172 D. Berton Emerson PA R T T H R E E: Visible Assemblages 8 The Early National Picturesque 199 Laurel V. Hankins 9 Visualizing the Incompleteness of “Mound-Builder” Ruins 220 Lisa West 10 Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage 249 Amy M. E. Morris Notes on Contributors 275 Index 278
Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch Part I – Partial Histories Chapter 1: Reading for Unreadability; or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records Lori Rogers-Stokes Chapter 2: Textural Scholarship: Susan Howe’s Mary Rowlandson Marion Rust Chapter 3: ‘Composing my resentments’: Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight’s The Journal of Madam Knight Nicholas K. Mohlmann Chapter 4: Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination Daniel Diez Couch Part II – Fragmentary Communities Chapter 5: Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces Keri Holt Chapter 6: Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive John Saillant Chapter 7: Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America D. Berton Emerson Part III – Visible Assemblages Chapter 8: The Early National Picturesque Laurel Hankins Chapter 9: Visualizing the Incompleteness of ‘Mound-Builder’ Ruins Lisa West Chapter 10: Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage Amy Morris Notes on Contributors Index Introduction: Parting with Wholes in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art 1 Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch PA R T O N E: Partial Histories 1 Reading for Unreadability; or, Embracing the Gaps in Congregational Church Records 33 Lori Rogers-Stokes 2 “Textural Scholarship”: Susan Howe’s Mary Rowlandson 49 Marion Rust 3 “Composing My Resentments”: Process and Palimpsest in Sarah Kemble Knight’s The Journal of Madam Knight 76 Nicholas K. Mohlmann 4 Fragments, Scraps, and the Formalism of the Historical Imagination 95 Daniel Diez Couch PA R T TWO: Fragmentary Communities 5 Reading Early American Almanacs: Imagining Unity in Parts and Pieces 117 Keri Holt 6 Lists and List-Makers of the African Atlantic Archive 151 John Saillant 7 Failed Periodicals, Forgotten Satires, and Alternative Forms of Dissent in Antebellum America 172 D. Berton Emerson PA R T T H R E E: Visible Assemblages 8 The Early National Picturesque 199 Laurel V. Hankins 9 Visualizing the Incompleteness of “Mound-Builder” Ruins 220 Lisa West 10 Edward Taylor and the Art of Assemblage 249 Amy M. E. Morris Notes on Contributors 275 Index 278
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