Neither the Time nor the Place: The New Nineteenth-Century American Studies

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.

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