Speculative endeavors : cultures of knowledge and capital in the long nineteenth century /

"Speculative endeavours contributes to an emerging field of scholarship that focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society. It sheds light on unofficial knowledges such as insider information, rumour, gossip, slander, emphasising...

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Other Authors: Horn, Katrin (Editor), Hoepker, Karin (Editor), Foltinek, Selina (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.
Series:Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: managing knowledge and capital in the nineteenth century / Karin Hoepker and Katrin Horn
  • Part I: Capital, Reputation, and Legal Recognition
  • Sometimes it is worse to be talked about: epistemic surplus and social capital / Karen Adkins
  • Rumor as speculative practice: reports of uprisings of enslaved people in the nineteenth-century US South / Sebastian Jobs
  • US immigrants, remittances, and the courts, 1904-1925 / Atiba Pertilla
  • Part II: Commerce, Print Culture, and the Circulation of Knowledge
  • Epistemic style and the "knowing unknown" of racial capitalism in W.E.B. Du Bois's "Scorn" / Alexander Starre
  • Black editorship and the economics of print: Pauline E. Hopkins and the Colored Press Conventions / Andrew Erlandson
  • "Interesting to ladies": how foreign correspondents made gossip a profession / Selina Foltinek and Katrin Horn
  • Part III: Pedagogies and Practices of the Home
  • Raising capitalist citizens: pecuniary pedagogies and belongings in the United States, 1820-1900 / Jaclyn Schultz
  • Genteel performance, embodies knowledge, and the quest for status in US American parlors / Carola Bebermeier
  • Speculative knowledge: Ellen Richards and science of the home, 1870-1911 / Serenity Sutherland.