Paul Giles

Virtual Americas

Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary

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Produktbeschreibung

"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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 151mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780822329671
• ISBN-10: 0822329670
• Artikelnr.: 21629479

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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