Global Remapping of American Literature
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American exceptionalism
American literature
American modernism
American Pastoral
American studies
American Studies Association
Americans
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Cartography
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Cosmopolitanism
Culture of the United States
Deterritorialization
Dialectic
Edgar Allan Poe
Emblem
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F. O. Matthiessen
Fiction
Fredric Jameson
Geography
Globalization
H. L. Mencken
Hegemony
Henry David Thoreau
Hybridity
Iconography
Ideology
Irony
John Updike
Latin America
Lawrence Buell
Lecture
Leslie Marmon Silko
Literature
Mark Twain
Medievalism
Modernism
Modernity
Narrative
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nation state
National identity
New Historicism
North America
Novelist
Pacific Northwest
Parody
Poetry
Politics
Posthumanism
Postmodernism
Prose
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rhetoric
Romanticism
Sensibility
Slavery
Surrealism
Teleology
The Other Hand
The Transcendentalist
Transcendentalism
Transnationalism
Walter Benn Michaels
Werner Sollors
William Carlos Williams
William Gilmore Simms
World War II
Writer
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691136134
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F.
Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, Jose Marti, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography, The Global Remapping of American Literature reorients the subject for the transnational era.
Paul Giles is the Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney. His many books include "Atlantic Republic" and "Virtual Americas".
