Description: This session explores the question, Was nineteenth-century America modern?, addressing religion and race, among other topics, to generate a historical rubric and theoretical apparatus for the partial modernity of nineteenth-century America.

Speakers

Edward Sugden, U of London, King’s C

Peter M. Coviello, U of Illinois, Chicago

Erica Fretwell, U at Albany, State U of New York

Carrie Hyde, U of California, Los Angeles

Presider

Nicholas Gaskill, U of Oxford