Turns of Event – Nineteenth–Century American Literary Studies in Motion Blum

Turns of EventNineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion\nAuthor(s): Hester Blum\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812247985, 978-0812247985\nSynopsis\nAmerican literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions over the past two decades that have been consistently described as \""turns,\"" whether transnational, hemispheric, postnational, spatial, temporal, postsecular, aesthetic, or affective. In Turns of Event, Hester Blum and a splendid roster of contributors explore the conditions that have produced such movements. Offering an overview of the state of the study of nineteenth-century American literature, Blum contends that the field's propensity to turn, to reinvent itself constantly without dissolution, is one of its greatest strengths.\n The essays in the volume's first half, \""Provocations,\"" trace the theoretical and methodological development and instit.