This volume presents a complex portrait of a US grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Subjects include: power, memory, racial and economic inequality, Indigeneity, disability, gender and sexuality, literary genre, poetics, performance, and foodways.

1. Introduction: 'Transitions' William Huntting Howell and Greta LaFleur; I. Form and Genre: What Do We Have Here?: 2. The Law of the Form and the Form of the Law Matthew Garrett; 3. The Statesman's Address Sandra Gustafson; 4. Vocabularies and other Indigenous-Language Texts¿Sean Harvey; 5. The Genteel Novel in the Early United States Thomas Koenigs; 6. The State of Our Union: Comedy in the Post-Revolutionary US Theatre Heather Nathans; 7. 'To assume her Language as my own': The Revival Hymn and the Evangelical Poetess in the Early Republic Wendy Roberts; 8. 'Little Secrets': Taste-Making and the Rise of the American Cookbook Elizabeth Hopwood; II. Networks: 9. Modern Bigotry: The War for the Ohio, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Settler Colonial Imagination in the Early Republic John Mac Kilgore; 10. 'This Politick Salvage': Defining an Early Native American Literary Aesthetics Drew Lopenzina; 11. Logics of Exchange and the Beginnings¿of US Hispanophone Literature Emily García; 12. The¿Emigrationist Turn in Black Anti-Colonizationist Sentiment Kirsten Lee; 13. The Black Child, the Colonial Orphan, and Early Republican Visions of Freedom Anna Mae Duane; III. Methods for Living: 14. The Affective Post War Michelle Sizemore; 15. Revolutionary Lives: Memoir Writing and Meaning Making during the American Revolution Michael McDonnell and Marama Whyte; 16. Literature of Poverty and Labor Lori Merish; 17. Neuroqueering the¿Republic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond Sari Altschuler; 18. A Queer¿Crip¿Method¿for Early American¿Studies Don James McLaughlin.