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A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction

A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction

by Cindy Weinstein (Editor), Cindy Weinstein (Editor)

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Synopsis

This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods. American literature, from its beginnings to the present, provides a particularly rich set of texts to examine in this regard, with its interest in history, modernity and progress. Each essay considers how time embeds itself in a variety of textual representations, including Native American rituals, Shaker dances, novels, poetry, and magazines in order to provide readers with a capacious view of time's constitutive role in American literature. The essays are organized into four sections - Materializing Time, Performing Time, Timing Time, and Theorizing Time. Each section reflects a particular approach to the question of time, but taken as a whole the volume makes visible unexpected temporal patterns that cut across time period and genre.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 360
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 13 Dec 2018
ISBN 10: 1108422888
ISBN 13: 9781108422888

Media Reviews
Advance praise: 'The expertly chosen essays in this collection offer a major contribution to the study of time in American literature and culture. Ranging from the colonial period to the present, these pieces reveal the centrality of temporal concerns to the aesthetics and the politics of some of our most important texts and other cultural productions, from canonical literary works to periodical writing, indigenous oral traditions, theatrical performance, testimony, and dance.' Thomas Allen, University of Ottawa
Author Bio
Cindy Weinstein is Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Cambridge, 1995), Family, Kinship and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Cambridge, 2005) and Time, Tense, and American Literature: When is Now? (Cambridge, 2015).