{"product_id":"neither-the-time-nor-the-place-9780812253665","title":"Neither the Time nor the Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.   Taken together, the essays challenge depictions of place and time as bounded and linear, fixed and teleological, or mere ideological constructions. They address both familiar and unexpected objects, practices, and texts, including a born-digital Melville, documents from the construction of the Panama Canal, the hollow earth, the desiring body, textual editing, marble statuary, the sound of frogs, spirit photography, and twentieth-century Civil War fiction. The essays draw on an equally wide variety of critical met","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405747691863,"sku":"9780812253665","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812253665.jpg?v=1730493473","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neither-the-time-nor-the-place-9780812253665","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}