"This collection is magisterial in terms of its historical and contemporary depth and breadth, and its conversations with a very wide range of philosophers, theorists, artists, musicians, and cultural forms and ideas. The writing is superb, suffused with originality, playfulness, intensity, and the willingness to take risks that models the best of public intellectual writing."--Mary Hufford, editor of Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage
"Like no other commentator, Cantwell grounds structures of feeling in historical experience, reclaiming the landscapes and bodies that have left their traces on our haunted American culture. This book is a wondrous tour of the American imaginary."--Dorothy Noyes, author of Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco