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Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that underwrote much of its self-understanding. This volume queries the various forms and formations of post-Reconstruction American literature. It contends that the literature of this period, most often referred to as 'turn-of-the-century' might be more productively oriented by the end of Reconstruction and the haunting aftermath of its emancipatory potential than by the logic of temporal and social advance that underwrote the end of the century and the beginning of the Progressive Era. Acknowledging that nearly all US literature after 1876 might be described as post-Reconstruction, the volume invites readers to reframe this period by asking: under what terms did post-Reconstruction American literature challenge or re-consolidate the 'nation' as an affective, political, and discursive phenomenon? And what kind of alternative pasts and futures did it write into existence?
American literature --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History
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Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late 19th- and early 20th-century American realism, 'Realist Ecstasy' travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism's relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a wide-ranging repertoire of media practices - including literature, photography, audio recording, and early film - Lindsay V. Reckson argues that the real was repetitively enacted and reenacted through bodily practice.
Performance in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Religion in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Anna Julia Cooper. --- Frances E. W. Harper. --- Ghost Dance. --- Hamlin Garland. --- James Mooney. --- James Weldon Johnson. --- Jim Crow. --- Nella Larsen. --- Pentecostalism. --- Reconstruction. --- W. E. B. Du Bois. --- William Dean Howells. --- William Van der Weyde. --- affect. --- body. --- capital punishment. --- conversion. --- electricity. --- ethnography. --- gesture. --- haunting. --- intersectionality. --- lynching. --- messiah craze. --- performance. --- photography. --- queerness. --- realism. --- recording. --- reenactment. --- secularism. --- secularization. --- settler colonialism. --- sexuality. --- storefront church. --- temporality. --- whiteness.
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American literature --- Literature --- United States of America
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