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Early America and the Modern Imagination Rewriting the Past in the Present

Erben Patrick M. Harrison, Rebecca L.
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781399536172
Publisert
2025-06-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
360

Redaktør
Erben Patrick M.
Harrison, Rebecca L.

Om bidragsyterne

Patrick M. Erben is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA. He is the author of A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania (2013) and co-edited The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader (2019). Erben is a past president of the Society of Early Americanists and currently serves on the editorial board for Early American Literature. Rebecca L. Harrison is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the co-editor of the Eudora Welty Review and President of the Eudora Welty Society. Her books include Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez (2013), Teaching, Pedagogy, and Learning: Fertile Ground for Campus and Community Innovations (2017) and Revitalizing Classrooms: Innovations and Inquiry Pedagogies in Practice (2017).

Early America and the Modern Imagination Rewriting the Past in the Present

Erben Patrick M. Harrison, Rebecca L.
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Erben Patrick M. Harrison, Rebecca L.
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
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This book is both brilliant and necessary. Each chapter links a deep knowledge of the past to its modern redeployments in contemporary media. In doing so, the book makes a powerful case for the humanities, explaining public memory and showing how important it is for literary scholars to study it. A vital project, and a terrific book.

- Abram Van Engen, Washington University in St. Louis,

Recurring culture war controversies in the US ranging from reproductive freedom and gender identity to racial inequality and immigration often turn public attention to early American precedents. At the same time, early American figures and tropes enjoy a stunning cachet in popular culture. Early America and the Modern Imagination squarely interprets the significance and cultural uses of these transhistorical re-imaginings of the early American past. While drawing productively on public memory scholarship, this volume augments its neglect of early American studies. The collection's critical and pedagogical essays investigate how a variety of modalities including literature, film, television, theatre, video games and graphic novels rescript early America as a usable past for contemporary audiences. Early America and the Modern Imagination, therefore, interprets early American themes and their present-day echoes to grapple with the evolving and highly contested import of the American nation's past in the present cultural moment.
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Analyses the pervasive use of early American themes in contemporary culture, including literature, television series, film, theatre, graphic novels and video games.
List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Scripting the Past in the Present: Early America and the Modern Imaginary—An Introduction Patrick M. Erben and Rebecca L. Harrison Part I. Graphic Novels and Gaming: New Modalities and Historical Representation Section Overview 1. Ghost River’s Restorative Fiction: Prioritizing Indigenous Pasts and Presents Will Fenton and Katelyn Lucas 2. Simulating Sovereignty: Alternative History, Video Games, and the Haudenosaunee Harry J. Brown 3. Learning through Looking: Early American History and Race in Contemporary African American Graphic Novels Oliver Scheiding Part II. Women in Film: Gender, Consent, and Representation Section Overview 4. More Authentic Yet Less Accurate: The Challenges of Depicting Women in Early American Film and TV Adaptations Stacey Dearing 5. “Check her for marks!”: Teaching Bodily Consent and Autonomy through the Salem Witch Crisis Documents and Netflix’s Fear Street: 1666 Danielle Cofer 6. Sex Education: Teaching Revolutionary Constructs of Womanhood through AMC’s Turn Patrick M. Erben and Cryslin Ledbetter Part III. Staging the Nation: From Theater to Television Section Overview 7. Performing, Remembering, and Reiterating: Early America on Stage Shira Lurie 8. Aaron Posner’s JQA as Layered History: Promoting Aesthetic-Historical Reflection in a Texas Theatre’s Production Sarah Ruffing Robbins 9. Ted Lasso and Early American Identity Anne Roth-Reinhardt Part IV. Grammars of Colonial Violence Section Overview 10. “The Truth is Much Different”: Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s Literary Lives and the (Re)Production of Colonial Violence Kirsten Iden 11. African Cinema on American Slavery Steven W. Thomas 12. Epistolary Writing and the Afterlife of Letters from a Woman of Color Lisa Vandenbossche Index
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Combines expertise in early American research methods with the study of new modalities (such as video games and graphic novels) and cultural paradigms (such as restorative approaches to Native American history and sovereignty)
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This book is both brilliant and necessary. Each chapter links a deep knowledge of the past to its modern redeployments in contemporary media. In doing so, the book makes a powerful case for the humanities, explaining public memory and showing how important it is for literary scholars to study it. A vital project, and a terrific book.

- Abram Van Engen, Washington University in St. Louis,

Recurring culture war controversies in the US ranging from reproductive freedom and gender identity to racial inequality and immigration often turn public attention to early American precedents. At the same time, early American figures and tropes enjoy a stunning cachet in popular culture. Early America and the Modern Imagination squarely interprets the significance and cultural uses of these transhistorical re-imaginings of the early American past. While drawing productively on public memory scholarship, this volume augments its neglect of early American studies. The collection's critical and pedagogical essays investigate how a variety of modalities including literature, film, television, theatre, video games and graphic novels rescript early America as a usable past for contemporary audiences. Early America and the Modern Imagination, therefore, interprets early American themes and their present-day echoes to grapple with the evolving and highly contested import of the American nation's past in the present cultural moment.
Les mer
Analyses the pervasive use of early American themes in contemporary culture, including literature, television series, film, theatre, graphic novels and video games.
List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Scripting the Past in the Present: Early America and the Modern Imaginary—An Introduction Patrick M. Erben and Rebecca L. Harrison Part I. Graphic Novels and Gaming: New Modalities and Historical Representation Section Overview 1. Ghost River’s Restorative Fiction: Prioritizing Indigenous Pasts and Presents Will Fenton and Katelyn Lucas 2. Simulating Sovereignty: Alternative History, Video Games, and the Haudenosaunee Harry J. Brown 3. Learning through Looking: Early American History and Race in Contemporary African American Graphic Novels Oliver Scheiding Part II. Women in Film: Gender, Consent, and Representation Section Overview 4. More Authentic Yet Less Accurate: The Challenges of Depicting Women in Early American Film and TV Adaptations Stacey Dearing 5. “Check her for marks!”: Teaching Bodily Consent and Autonomy through the Salem Witch Crisis Documents and Netflix’s Fear Street: 1666 Danielle Cofer 6. Sex Education: Teaching Revolutionary Constructs of Womanhood through AMC’s Turn Patrick M. Erben and Cryslin Ledbetter Part III. Staging the Nation: From Theater to Television Section Overview 7. Performing, Remembering, and Reiterating: Early America on Stage Shira Lurie 8. Aaron Posner’s JQA as Layered History: Promoting Aesthetic-Historical Reflection in a Texas Theatre’s Production Sarah Ruffing Robbins 9. Ted Lasso and Early American Identity Anne Roth-Reinhardt Part IV. Grammars of Colonial Violence Section Overview 10. “The Truth is Much Different”: Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s Literary Lives and the (Re)Production of Colonial Violence Kirsten Iden 11. African Cinema on American Slavery Steven W. Thomas 12. Epistolary Writing and the Afterlife of Letters from a Woman of Color Lisa Vandenbossche Index
Les mer
Combines expertise in early American research methods with the study of new modalities (such as video games and graphic novels) and cultural paradigms (such as restorative approaches to Native American history and sovereignty)
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399536172
Publisert
2025-06-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
360

Redaktør
Erben Patrick M.
Harrison, Rebecca L.

Om bidragsyterne

Patrick M. Erben is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA. He is the author of A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania (2013) and co-edited The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader (2019). Erben is a past president of the Society of Early Americanists and currently serves on the editorial board for Early American Literature. Rebecca L. Harrison is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA. She is the co-editor of the Eudora Welty Review and President of the Eudora Welty Society. Her books include Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez (2013), Teaching, Pedagogy, and Learning: Fertile Ground for Campus and Community Innovations (2017) and Revitalizing Classrooms: Innovations and Inquiry Pedagogies in Practice (2017).

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