"Timely, smart, and fun, this book will provoke some very interesting classroom conversations?and may well reshape the way lots of us teach American literature. A game-changing collection that offers a provocation to scholarship and to teaching, this lucid, lively book is a joy to read."?Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University, author of Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States "Through a series of thought experiments and formal proposals, the contributors in Timelines of American Literature explore the 'revisionist potential' of a periodizing drive that is too often undertaken conservatively. A fresh essay collection with an exciting range of chapters and topics."?Hester Blum, Pennsylvania State University, author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives "Marrs and Hager have assembled a series of thought-provoking essays that expand our ways of thinking about American literature by questioning, lengthening, reversing, and even defending the timelines that have traditionally defined it."?Cindy Weinstein, California Institute of Technology, editor of A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction " Timelines of American Literature shakes up disciplinary assumptions that have undergirded literary historiography for over a century. These fresh and provocative essays offer bracing alternatives to long-standard field chronologies, methodologies, and ideologies.

"?Elizabeth Renker, The Ohio State University, author of Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866?1900 "Marrs and Hager have assembled a rollicking and provocative collection of essays in this superlative volume. Ranging from a single year to several millennia, the ages, eras, and histories mapped by these essays imagine multiple expansive, inclusive, madcap, and shifting futures for American literature."?Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg College, author of Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America "In this bracing collection of essays, editors Cody Marrs and Christopher Hager and their contributors open up questions at the core of American literary studies. What are its durations, locations, and boundaries? How do we lend coherence to our endeavors? The answers offered are many, sometimes conflicting, always vital."?Samuel Otter, University of California, Berkeley, author of Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom.