A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinities between Australian and American literature.
A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinities between Australian and American literature.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul Giles is Professor and Challis Chair of English at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books, including The Global Remapping of American Literature (Princeton UP, 2010), Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature (OUP-UK, 2006), and Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke UP, 2002).
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* Preface * 1. American Literature and the Antipodean Imaginary: Imperialism,Transnationalism, Surrealism * 2. Parallax Zones: The Founding Fathers and Austral Enlightenment * Satiric Double-Binds: Benjamin Franklin's Biloquism * Planetary Perspectives: Crèvecoeur's New Holland * Transposing the West: Jefferson and Ledyard * 3. Early National Orbits: Geography, Astronomy, and the Cycles of the Earth * Freneau, Alsop, and Neoclassical Style * Joel Barlow: The Columbiad * Charles Brockden Brown: Systems of General Geography * 4. Aurora Australis: Antebellum Seascapes and the Southern Cross * The Hidden Antipodes: Irving's "Globular" Narratives * The Southern Sea: Dana and Poe * "Ex Ex" Narratives: Wilkes and Cooper * 5. Transcendental Burlesque: Reorienting Manifest Destiny * "The Other Side of the Sphere": Melville and Australasia * Rotating the Axis: The Gold Rush Circuit * "The Earth reversed her Hemispheres": Dickinson's Antipodality * 6. Empire Upside Down: Victorian Globalization and Colonial Equations * Civil War, Imperial Circumference: Lincoln and Trollope * Family Romance, Domestic Disturbance: Kingsley and Southworth * Spatio-Temporal Triangulation: Henry Adams * The Laughing Jackass: Twain's Latitudinal Parallels * 7. Ancestral Modernisms: Indigeneity and the Articulation of Distance * Irish Aesthetic Nativism: John Boyle O'Reilly * Racialism and Socialism: Jack London * The Primitivist Paradox: Federation's "weird country" * 8. Transpacific Transgression: Gender Remapping and World Revolutions * The Boundaries of Utopia: Howells, Gilman, Miles Franklin * Lola Ridge and the Appulsive Avant-Garde * "The Twinness of Things": Stead's Surrealist Dialectic * 9. Pacific Theaters: The Poetry of Violence, from World War II to Vietnam * Karl Shapiro's "backward crab" * Louis Simpson: Racial Métissage and Southern Pastoral * The New York Poets: Inversion and Misrepresentation * "America rhymes with Australia": Yusef Komunyakaa * 10. Antipodean American Postmodernism: Turning the Subject Inside Out * Irish Intertexts: Chandler and Keneally * Contrarian Tendencies: Hazzard, Rushdie, Carey * "Transposabilities": The Posthumanist Spectrum * J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Disorientation * Conclusion: American Literature's Terra Incognita * Notes * Works Cited
* Preface * 1. American Literature and the Antipodean Imaginary: Imperialism,Transnationalism, Surrealism * 2. Parallax Zones: The Founding Fathers and Austral Enlightenment * Satiric Double-Binds: Benjamin Franklin's Biloquism * Planetary Perspectives: Crèvecoeur's New Holland * Transposing the West: Jefferson and Ledyard * 3. Early National Orbits: Geography, Astronomy, and the Cycles of the Earth * Freneau, Alsop, and Neoclassical Style * Joel Barlow: The Columbiad * Charles Brockden Brown: Systems of General Geography * 4. Aurora Australis: Antebellum Seascapes and the Southern Cross * The Hidden Antipodes: Irving's "Globular" Narratives * The Southern Sea: Dana and Poe * "Ex Ex" Narratives: Wilkes and Cooper * 5. Transcendental Burlesque: Reorienting Manifest Destiny * "The Other Side of the Sphere": Melville and Australasia * Rotating the Axis: The Gold Rush Circuit * "The Earth reversed her Hemispheres": Dickinson's Antipodality * 6. Empire Upside Down: Victorian Globalization and Colonial Equations * Civil War, Imperial Circumference: Lincoln and Trollope * Family Romance, Domestic Disturbance: Kingsley and Southworth * Spatio-Temporal Triangulation: Henry Adams * The Laughing Jackass: Twain's Latitudinal Parallels * 7. Ancestral Modernisms: Indigeneity and the Articulation of Distance * Irish Aesthetic Nativism: John Boyle O'Reilly * Racialism and Socialism: Jack London * The Primitivist Paradox: Federation's "weird country" * 8. Transpacific Transgression: Gender Remapping and World Revolutions * The Boundaries of Utopia: Howells, Gilman, Miles Franklin * Lola Ridge and the Appulsive Avant-Garde * "The Twinness of Things": Stead's Surrealist Dialectic * 9. Pacific Theaters: The Poetry of Violence, from World War II to Vietnam * Karl Shapiro's "backward crab" * Louis Simpson: Racial Métissage and Southern Pastoral * The New York Poets: Inversion and Misrepresentation * "America rhymes with Australia": Yusef Komunyakaa * 10. Antipodean American Postmodernism: Turning the Subject Inside Out * Irish Intertexts: Chandler and Keneally * Contrarian Tendencies: Hazzard, Rushdie, Carey * "Transposabilities": The Posthumanist Spectrum * J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Disorientation * Conclusion: American Literature's Terra Incognita * Notes * Works Cited
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