Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies by Max Cavitch

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The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to Early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique.

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The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to Early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique. Bringing together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars, editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly demonstrate that critique is about acknowledging that we are never simply writing better or worse accounts of the past, but accounts of the present as well. The contributors examine topics ranging from the indeterminacy of knowledge and history to Black speculative writing and nineteenth-century epistemology, the role of the unconscious in settler colonialism, and early American writing about masturbation, repression, religion, and secularism and their respective influence on morality. The contributors also offer vital new interpretations of major lines of thought in the history of critique-especially those relating to Freud and Foucault-that will be valuable both for scholars of Early American studies and for scholars of the humanities and interpretive social sciences more broadly.Contributors. Max Cavitch, Brian Connolly, Matthew Crow, John J. Garcia, Christopher Looby, Michael Meranze, Mark J. Miller, Justine S. Murison, Britt Rusert, Ana Schwartz, Joan Wallach Scott, Jordan Alexander Stein

Author Biography

Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman.Brian Connolly is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and the author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction: Situation Critical / Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly  1I. Theory for Early America1. Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History / Joan W. Scott  332. Foucault's Oedipus / Michael Meranze  52II. Subjects of Early America3. Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable / Ana Schwartz  734. Michael Widdlesworth's Queer Orthography / Christopher Looby  1035. George Whitefield's Sexual Character / Mark J. Miller  139III. Fantasies of Realism6. Secularism, Hypocrisy, and the Afterlives of Thomas Paine / Justine S. Murison  1777. No Matter: Persisting Rationalisms in Antebellum Black Thought / Britt Rusert  2028. Queering Abolition / Jordan Alexander Stein  223IV. Power, Knowledge, Justice9. Equality in the Time of Moby-Dick / Matthew Crow  24110. Antebellum or Interbellum? / John J. Garcia  263List of Contributors  287Index  289

Review

In Situation Critical, Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly issue a rousing call for a return to critique, arguing for the importance of the study of early America to some of the most urgent questions of twenty-first-century life. Locating contemporary ideas about sovereignty, race, sexuality, justice, and power in the unsettled state of colonial and early national American culture, the essays collected here engage early America not as a stable ground or point of origin but rather as a particularly fertile site for a critical history, one that brings empirical and theoretical approaches into dynamic relation." -- Meredith L. McGill, Professor of English, Rutgers University"What an edifying delight to think along with the scholars gathered in Situation Critical, whose objects of analysis range from Puritan annoyance to Melvillean justice, queer possibility to secular rectitude, cultures of abolition to settler colonial fantasy. Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly have convened essays that are surpassingly lively, nimble, exacting, and generous in their engagement with the amplest possibilities of critique. Situation Critical is a greatly welcome intervention." -- Peter Coviello, author of * Is There God after Prince? Dispatches from an Age of Last Things *

Details ISBN1478030313 Author Brian Connolly Publisher Duke University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781478030317 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-04-12 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies Edited by Brian Connolly Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Alternative 9781478026082 Illustrations 8 illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2024-04-12 DEWEY 810.9 Pages 304 ISBN-10 1478030313 UK Release Date 2024-04-12 We've got this

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