American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies

Infinite Space

Clare Corbould, Hilary Emmett, Sarah Garland, Malcolm McLaughlin, Thomas Ruys Smith, John Wills

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781041137412
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040925652
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This book explores what it means to study America in the twenty-first century and what the emergence of the field of New Area Studies means for the development of American Studies.

By analysing the meaning of interdisciplinarity, aesthetics, temporality, and periodisation, 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, this book rethinks the meaning and production of place, and questions what —and where—it means to study America now.

By 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Preface: Uncovering Space Within the New Area Studies
• Introduction—Infinite Space: American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies
• 1 Entanglements: Everyday Dress, The “American Look”, 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 Twain’s 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
• Index