The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters (Oxford Studies in American Literary History)

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The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction: Haiti in the Early American Republic of Letters
	“Colonial Period, Revolutionary Period, Knickerbocker Period . . . and so on”
	“What’s Past Is Epilogue”
1. “Not an End”: Seriality, Revolution, and “The Story of Makandal”
	Accounting for Makandal
	Fictional Truths, Truthful Fictions
	The History of Illustrious Villains
	Resistance as Reaction
2. Sympathy in the Era of Ungood Feelings: Martha Meredith Read’s City of Unbrotherly Love
	Dispossessed Elites
	Unwholesome Prejudices
	Utter Strangers
	Of What Nation Are My Ghosts?
	Nostalgic Formations
3. “Free of Every Thing which Can Affect Its Purity”: Maple Sugar, Caribbean Cane, and the Futures Past of Laborless American Development
	Refining on Common Sense
	The Hands of Freemen
	Sugary Accumulations
	The Sugar Maple of America
	Our Sweet Tastes
4. Transmitted to America: Zelica’s Incipient Fever and the Legacies of the Haitian Revolution
	Clara’s Mobility / Clara’s Stasis
	Genres of Revolutionary History
	Caribbean Romanticisms
	Ambiguous Migrations
5. “UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION!”: New York’s Print Public Sphere and the Haunting Legacies of the Black Atlantic
	Coco in New York
	Speedily Published
	Fit for No Work
	Undead Unions
	Revolutionary Offspring
Coda: \"What’s Past Is Epilogue”
	“To Our Patrons”
	“A Haytien Tale”
	A Tale of Two Archives
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1: “Not an End”
	Chapter 2: Sympathy in the Era of Ungood Feelings
	Chapter 3: “Free of Every Thing which Can Affect Its Purity”
	Chapter 4: Transmitted to America
	Chapter 5: “UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION!”
	Coda
Works Cited
Index