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Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives before 1800
Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and scholarly commentary. Building on recent reconsiderations of American literature in light of transnational and hemispheric approaches, it follows the migratio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America (Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe)
Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. The... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation (Material Culture Perspectives)
by Oliver Scheiding • Wendy Bellion • Bernard L. Herman • Julian Yates • Sarah Wasserman • Alexander Lawrence Ames • Torsten Cress • Julie L. McGee • Cindy Ott • Laura E. Helton • Jennifer Van Horn • Kiersten Thamm • Alexandra Ward • Halina Adams • Rosalie Hooper • Spencer Wigmore • Catherine Morrissey • Michelle Everidge • Kaila T. Schedeen • Lu Ann Cunzo • Natalie Elizabeth Wright • J. Ritchie Garrison • Jesse Kraft • Michael J. Emmons • Jessica ConradThe essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acqui... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021