Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Thomas O. Beebee teaches comparative literature at The Pennsylvania State University. In his research and teaching Beebee is interested in criticism and theory! eighteenth century literature! translation studies! and law and literature. Beebee has published widely in these fields and his book-length publications include Clarissa on the Continent! The Ideology of Genre! and Epistolary Fiction in Europe. Klappentext Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. This book analyzes fictional texts as a discursive territoriality that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging. Zusammenfassung Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. This book analyzes fictional texts as a discursive territoriality that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas O. Beebee
• Assisted by: Thomas O. Beebee (Editor)
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2008
• EAN: 9781557534989
• ISBN: 978-1-55753-498-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Comparative Cultural Studies; Comparative Cultural Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies