Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-xii

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Elsewheres

pp 17-18

1 - Material/Immaterial: Frederick Douglass and the ‘Moral Chemistry of the Universe’, 1855

pp 19-28

2 - Earth/Atmosphere: The Leonid Meteor Shower, 1833

pp 29-40

3 - Body/Spirit: Walt Whitman’s Hicksite Quaker Poetics, 1855

pp 41-56

Part II - Excess Identities

pp 57-58

4 - Latinx/Confederate: Loreta Janeta Velazquez as a Cross-Dressing Soldier, 1861

pp 59-70

6 - White/Not-White: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Racial Transformations, 1839

pp 88-100

Part III - Chance Encounters

pp 121-122

8 - Mexico/Britain: A History of Julia Pastrana’s Teeth, 1860–2013

pp 123-145

9 - Matanzas, Cuba/Keswick, England: Maria Gowen Brooks Visits Robert Southey, 1831

pp 146-157

10 - England/New England: A British Quaker and a Fugitive from Slavery Encounter Eac h Other on a Train, 1850

pp 158-174

Part IV - Impossible Systems

pp 175-176

12 - Antiquity/Modernity: An Issue of Puck Magazine, 1889

pp 195-205

13 - Democracy/State: James Fenimore Cooper on the Frontier, 1826/1757

pp 206-221

14 - Ulster, 1785/Pennsylvania, 1817/ Ulster, 1845: James McHenry’s Pa limpsest of Anglo Settler Colonialism

pp 222-245

5 - Philippines/United States: David Fagen Defects to the Filipino Army, 1899

pp 71-87

7 - Ecology/Radical Politics: Thoreau’s Science of Civil Disobedience, 1849

pp 101-120

11 - Slave Labour/Wage Labour: Reading Bartleby’s Refusals, 1850

pp 177-194

Index

pp 246-251