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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 W. Scott, Jordan Alexander Stein
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Situation Critical / Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly 1
I. Theory for Early America
1. Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History / Joan W. Scott 33
2. Foucault's Oedipus / Michael Meranze 52
II. Subjects of Early America
3. Annoyances, Tolerable and Intolerable / Ana Schwartz 73
4. Michael Widdlesworth's Queer Orthography / Christopher Looby 103
5. George Whitefield's Sexual Character / Mark J. Miller 139
III. Fantasies of Realism
6. Secularism, Hypocrisy, and the Afterlives of Thomas Paine / Justine S. Murison 177
7. No Matter: Persisting Rationalisms in Antebellum Black Thought / Britt Rusert 202
8. Queering Abolition / Jordan Alexander Stein 223
IV. Power, Knowledge, Justice
9. Equality in the Time of Moby-Dick / Matthew Crow 241
10. Antebellum or Interbellum? / John J. Garcia 263
List of Contributors 287
Index 289
