Giles / Pease Virtual Americas

Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8404-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giles, Paul

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Virtual Subjects: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary

2. Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British Culture

3. “Bewildering Intertanglement”: Melville’s Engagement with British Tradition

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

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Giles is Reader in American Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his books are Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730–1860; and American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics.