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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part I. Citizenship -- Chapter 1. Roma Redux: The Analogical Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2. African Americans and the Panama Canal Zone as a Third Space -- Chapter 3. "Something Awful in the Voice of the Multitude": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred on Power and Social Struggle -- Part II. Environment -- Chapter 4. Uneven Improvement: Swamplands and the Matter of Slavery in Stowe, Northup, and Thoreau -- Chapter 5. Vanishing Sounds: Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction -- Part III. Historiography -- Chapter 6. Beyond Space: The Speculative Dimension of Nineteenth-Century American Literature -- Chapter 7. Exorbitant Optics and Lunatic Pleasures -- Chapter 8. The Other South: Time, Space, and Counterfactual Histories of the Civil War -- Chapter 9. Apocalypse Then: Southern Speculative Fiction, Slavery, and Civil War, 1836-1860 -- Part IV. Media -- Chapter 10. Editing Melville's Pierre: Text, Nation, Time -- Chapter 11. American Literary Studies Scale -- Chapter 12. Place Out of Time: LatinX Studies, Migrant Fictions, and Israel Potter -- Part V. Bodies -- Chapter 13. Shame and the Emotional Life of the Realist Novel -- Chapter 14. Ghosts of Another Time: Spiritualism, Photography, Enchantment -- Chapter 15. Not to Mention: (the marmorean unconscious) -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments The usefulness of time and place as defining categories would seem to be baked into the very notion of nineteenth-century American literary studies, yet they have challenged scholars practically since the field's inception. In Neither the Time nor the Place seventeen critics consider how the space-time dyad has both troubled and invigorated Americanist scholarship in recent decades and make explicit how time and place are best considered in tandem, interrogating each other.Taken together, the essays challenge depictions of place and time as bounded and linear, fixed and teleological, or mere ideological constructions. They address both familiar and unexpected objects, practices, and texts, including a born-digital Melville, documents from the construction of the Panama Canal, the hollow earth, the desiring body, textual editing, marble statuary, the sound of frogs, spirit photography, and twentieth-century Civil War fiction. The essays draw on an equally wide variety of critical methodologies, integrating affect studies, queer theory, book history, information studies, sound studies, environmental humanities, new media studies, and genre theory to explore the unexpected dimensions that emerge when time and place are taken as a unit. The pieces are organized around considerations of citizenship, environment, historiography, media, and bodies-five political, cultural, and/or methodological foci for some of the most provocative new work being done in American literary studies.Neither the Time nor the Place is a book not only for scholars and students already well grounded in the study of nineteenth-century American literature and culture, but for anyone, scholar or student, looking for a roadmap to some of the most vibrant work in the field.Contributors: Wai Chee Dimock, Stephanie Foote, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Coleman Hutchison, Rodrigo Lazo, Caroline Levander, Robert S. Levine, Christopher Looby, Dana Luciano, Timothy Marr, Dana D. Nelson, Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo, Mark Storey, Matthew E. Suazo, and Edward Sugden
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