American Writers in Paris - Then and Now

This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers and French society from the 1800s to the present. It reveals a deepened understanding and an increased acceptance of different traditions and values, and shows a considerable cultural complexity, reflecting not only a transcontinental but also a global vision in the literature of these writers in the context of the City of Light. 

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction-Literary and Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 2: "The most hospitable of cities": Ralph Waldo Emerson and Paris.- Chapter 3: The American in Paris: Sources, Stereotypes, American Exceptionalism, and Henry James's The American.- Chapter 4: Finding Herself Elsewhere: Grace King, Madame Blanc, and Le Petit Salon.- Chapter 5: The Chronotope of "the Temporary Autonomous Zone" in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.- Chapter 6: Save Me from the Waltz: Zelda Fitzgerald and the Trauma Cultures of Expatriate Paris.- Chapter 7: Worlds beyond All Fact and Flesh: William Faulkner, Paul Cézanne, and the Phenomenology of Visual Art.- Chapter 8: Reframing Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller's Black(face) Book.- Chapter 9: William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face: A Novel Buried in Obscurity for Too Long.- Chapter 10: Our Paris: Edmund White's Sketches of Loss.- Chapter 11: French Chic American Style: Self-governance and the Promise of Social Distinction in Debra Ollivier's Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl.- Chapter 12: Jake Lamar's Expatriate Mysteries: Exercising the Ghosts of Transcontinental Paris Noir.- Chapter 13: Switching Tongues beside the Seine: Translingual American Writers in Paris.

About the author

Ferdâ Asya is professor of English and she has taught at institutions of higher education nationally and internationally. She is the editor of 
American Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present
 (2013) and 
Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction
 (2021).

Product details

• Assisted by: Ferdâ Asya (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.12.2025
• EAN: 9783031669897
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3166989-7
• No. of pages: 580
• Illustrations: XX, 580 p.
• Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Paul Cézanne, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Gender, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, William Faulkner, Henry Miller, Julien Green, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Race, Djuna Barnes, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Translingualism, Debra Ollivier, Grace King, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Jake Lamar, Marie Thérèse de Solms Blanc, William Gardner Smith, Edmund White, French-Algerian War, American expatriate literature in Paris