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Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Trish Loughran’s review remarks that this book “does something only a few special books have been able to do quite so well in recent years: it makes nineteenth-century American literature relevant to some of the most important arguments being made right now by scholars in other areas—arguments about temporality and spatial scale, print, postcoloniality, and global literary culture.” The broad aims reflected in these comments are supported by in-depth study of historiography, literary theory, art history, and nineteenth-century American and African American literature. The book’s conceptual framework also hangs on original archival research with unpublished manuscripts.