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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art

Edited by Matthew Pethers, Edited by Daniel Diez Couch, Contributions by Lori Rogers-Stokes, Contributions by Marion Rust, Contributions by Nicholas K. Mohlmann, Contributions by Daniel Diez Couch, Contributions by Keri Holt, Contributions by John Saillant, Contributions by D. Berton Emerson, Contributions by Laurel V. Hankins

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The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesâ€”from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragmentsâ€”often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the â€œwhole.â€ Contributors from literary studies, book history, and visual culture discuss a host of canonical and non-canonical figures, from Edward Taylor and Washington Irving to Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Kemble Knight, offering insight into the many intellectual, ideological, and material variations of â€œformâ€ that populated the early American cultural landscape. As these essays reveal, the casting of the fragmentary as aesthetically eccentric or incomplete was a way of reckoning with concerns about the related fragmentation of nation, society, and self. For a contemporary audience, they offer new ways to think about the inevitable gaps and absences in our cultural and historical archive.

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