Download or read book Turns of Event written by Hester Blum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions that have been described as turns, whether transnational, aesthetic, or affective. Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion argues that the propensity of the field to reinvent itself without dissolution is one of its greatest strengths.