John Neal and Nineteenth-Century and Culture

Edited by Edward Watts and David J. Carlson

Lewisburg BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction, Headlong Enterprise: John Neal and xi Nineteenth-Century America Edward Watts and David J. Carlson Chapter 1 "I Must Resemble Nobody": John Neal, Genre, 1 and the Making of American Literary Nationalism Matthew Pethers Chapter 2 "The Herbage of Death": Haunted Environments 39 in John Neal and Matthew Wynn Sivils Chapter 3 Eyewitness to History: The Antinarrative 57 Aesthetic of John Neal's Seventy-Six Jeffrey Insko Chapter 4 Notes on Poetic Push-Pin and the Writing of 75 Life in John Neal's Authorship Jorg Thomas Richter Chapter 5 Celebrated Rubbish: John Neal and the 99 Commercialization of Early American Maya Merlob Chapter 6 John Neal, the Rise of the Critick, and the 123 Rise of American Art Francesco Orestano Contents

Chapter 7 John Neal and John Dunn Hunter 145 Jonathan Elmer Chapter 8 "Another Declaration of Independence": 159 John Neal's Rachel Dyer and the Assault on Precedent David J. Carlson Chapter 9 Here, There, and Everywhere: The Elusive 185 Regionalism of John Neal Kerin Holt Chapter 10 He Could Not Believe that Butchering Red Men 209 Was Serving Our Maker: "David Whicher" and the Indian Hater Tradition Edward Watts Chapter 11 John Neal and the Early Discourse of 227 American Women's Rights Karen A. Weyler Chapter 12 "A Right Manly Man" in 1843: John Neal 247 on Women's Rights and the Problem of Male Fritz Fleischmann Chapter 13 How John Neal Wrote His Autobiography 271 Kevin J. Hayes Bibliography 283 Index 309 List of Contributors 319

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