Global Remapping of American Literature

Zusatztext " The Global Remapping of American Literature is, as has come to be expected of the work of Paul Giles, an excellent addition to the field of American studies. . . . Giles writes with the inevitable authority of a scholar whose critical achievements are consolidated by this latest work." ---Theresa Saxon, Years Work in English Studies Informationen zum Autor Paul Giles is the Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney. His many books include Atlantic Republic and Virtual Americas . Klappentext "This timely and inclusive book reconfigures the coordinates of the entire field of American literature for the transnational epoch. Scrupulously researched! it inaugurates a wholly alternative mode of understanding and is bound to provoke argument and discussion. Giles's engaging prose is a pleasure to read."--Donald E. Pease! Dartmouth College "There is no question that this ambitious book will find a wide readership among those in the fields of American literature and American studies. It brilliantly covers an impressive range of texts and offers new and provocative insights. Rich in detail! its implications for the study of American literature are decisive and far reaching."--Leonard Tennenhouse! Duke University Zusammenfassung Charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U S Civil War, this title identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Giles
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2011
• EAN: 9780691136134
• ISBN: 978-0-691-13613-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000