Virtual Americas - Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary

"Paul Giles's "Virtual Americas" is a major contribution to recent debates about transnationalism, U.S. and English cultural relations in the modern and postmodern eras, and the impact of these topics on the old and new American Studies. This is a first-rate book."--John Carlos Rowe, University of California, Irvine

Table des matières

Preface
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1. Virtual Subjects: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
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2. Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British Culture
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3. “Bewildering Intertanglement”: Melville’s Engagement with British Tradition
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4. “Charged and Queer”: Henry James and the Surrealization of America

5. From Decadent Aesthetics to Political Fetishism: The “Oracle Effect” of Frost’s Poetry

6. Virtual Eden: Lolita, Pornography, and the Perversions of American Studies

7. Crossing the Water: Gunn, Plath, and the Poetry of Passage

8. Virtual Englands: Pynchon’s Transatlantic Heresies

9. Virtual Americas: Cyberpastoral, Transnationalism, and the Ideology of Exchange

Notes

Index

A propos de l'auteur

Paul Giles

Résumé

A discussion on the ways in which representations in the US have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Giles, Paul Giles, Paul Giles
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 15.08.2002
• EAN: 9780822329541
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2954-1
• Pages: 352
• Poids: 907 g
• Thèmes: New Americanists; EMC Masterpiece Series Access; New Americanists
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Kulturwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Amerikanisches Englisch, Regionalstudien