TY - BOOK AU - Sugden,Edward TI - Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture T2 - America and the Long 19th Century SN - 9781479899692 AV - PS217.S58 S84 2019 U1 - 810.9003 23 PY - 2018///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and history KW - United States KW - Political culture KW - History KW - Social change in literature KW - Social change KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - bisacsh KW - Benito Cereno KW - Caribbean KW - Haiti KW - Herman Melville KW - James Fenimore Cooper KW - Liberia KW - Pacific elegy KW - Pacific KW - Sierra Leone KW - archival KW - black counterfactual KW - black historiography KW - city mysteries KW - democracy KW - dissonant times KW - emergent politics KW - emergent worlds KW - genres KW - geoculture KW - historical folds KW - immigrant gothic KW - immigration KW - interstices KW - interstitial KW - moby dick KW - nativism KW - nineteenth-century America KW - oceanic geography KW - oceanic KW - queer migrant KW - slavery KW - suspended state KW - systemic uncertainty KW - threshold state KW - transition state KW - world-system N1 - restricted access N2 - Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical fold between the transformations that inaugurated the modern era-colonialism to nationalism, mercantilism to capitalism, slavery to freedom, and deferent subject to free citizen. As travellers, workers, and writers journeyed across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean Sea, they had to adapt their political expectations to the interstitial social realities that they saw before them while also feeling their very consciousness, particularly their perception of time, mutate. These four domains-oceanic geography, historical folds, emergent politics, and dissonant times-in turn, provided the conditions for the development of three previously unnamed genres of the 1850s: the Pacific elegy, the black counterfactual, and the immigrant gothic.In telling the history of these emergent worlds and their importance to the development of the literary cultures of the US Americas, Sugden proposes narratives that alter some of the most enduring myths of the field, including the westward spread of US imperialism, the redemptionist trajectory of black historiography, and the notion that the US Americas constituted a new world. Introducing a new generic vocabulary for describing the literature of the 1850s and crossing over oceans and languages, Emergent Worlds invokes an alternative nineteenth-century America that provides nothing less than a new way to read the era UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479843435 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479843435/original ER -