This book explores what it means to study America in the 21st century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies.
This book explores what it means to study America in the 21st century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies.
Analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality and periodization, this book reveals both fields of study through the lens of interdisciplinary cases studies, innovative methodologies and a global perspective. Exploring the imagined geographies of America across space and time, the book rethinks the meaning and production of place, and questions what —and where—it means to study America now.
Addressing the key issues of nation, place and people in this new disciplinary moment, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of American Studies and Area Studies.
Introduction. Infinite Space: American Studies in the Age of New Area
Studies
1. Entanglements: The American Look, Everyday Dress, New Area
Studies and American Pragmatism
2. Where is New Area Studies? Multifocal
Perspective in the Art of Fiona Foley.
3. Settler Colonial Keywords for New
Area Studies: Land, Labour, and Language in Mark Twains Following the
Equator (1897).
4. American Notes: Listening to America in Late Nineteenth
Century Britain, Listening for New Area Studies
5. Hunting for New Area
Studies: Transnational Animals and Transatlantic Fox Hunting Culture
6. A
Place for New Area Studies: The Real and Imagined Landscapes of the American
Frontier
Clare Corbould is Associate Professor of History at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Hilary Emmett (she/her) is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Sarah Garland is a writer and researcher at the New Area Studies research centre, University of East Anglia, UK.
Malcolm McLaughlin is Professor of Cultural History at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Thomas Ruys Smith is Professor of American Literature Culture at the University of East Anglia, UK.
John Wills is Professor in Film and Media at the University of Kent, UK, and co-editor of the European Journal of American Culture (Intellect).
