Speculative Endeavors

Selina Foltinek is a doctoral candidate of American Studies at the University of Bayreuth and a teacher of History, English, and Political ScienceKarin Hoepker is Associate Professor of North American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-NürnbergKatrin Horn is Professor of Gender Studies at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Greifswald

• Introduction: Managing Knowledge and Capital in the Nineteenth Century – Karin Hoepker and Katrin HornPart I: Capital, Reputation, and Legal Recognition1. Sometimes it IS worse to be talked about: Epistemic Surplus and Social Capital – Karen Adkins2. Rumor as Speculative Practice: Reports of Slave Uprisings in the Nineteenth-Century US South – Sebastion Jobs3. US Immigrants, Remittances, and the Courts, 1904–25 – Atiba PertillaPart II: Commerce, Print Culture, and the Circulation of Knowledge4. Epistemic Style and the “Knowing Unknown” of Racial Capitalism in W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Scorn” – Alexander Starre5. Black Editorship and the Economics of Print: Pauline E. Hopkins and the Colored Press Conventions – Andrew Erlandson 6. “Interesting to Ladies”: How Foreign Correspondents Made Gossip a Profession – Selina Foltinek and Katrin HornPart III: Pedagogies and Practices of the Home7. Raising Capitalist Citizens: Pecuniary Pedagogies and Belonging in the United States, 1820–1900 – Jaclyn Schultz8. Genteel Performance, Embodied Knowledge, and the Quest for Status in US American Parlors – Carola Bebermeier9. Speculative Knowledge: Ellen Richards and Science of the Home, 1870–1911 – Serenity SutherlandIndex