John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature 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 James Fenimore Cooper 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 Romanticism Maya Merlob

Chapter 6 John Neal, the Rise of the Critick, and the 123 Rise of American Art Francesca Orestano

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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 Feminism Fritz Fleischmann

Chapter 13 How John Neal Wrote His Autobiography 271

Kevin J. Hayes

Bibliography 283

Index 309

List of Contributors 319 List of Illustrations

Figure 1: England and Ourself Figure 2: North American Review