Virtual Americas transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary

Title:

Author:

Giles, Paul.

Personal Author:

Giles, Paul.

Publication Information:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.

Physical Description:

xiii, 337 p.

Series:

New Americanists

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

Contents:

Virtual subjects: transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary -- Narrative reversals and power exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British culture -- "Bewildering" intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British tradition -- "Changed and queer": Henry James and the surrealization of America -- From decadent aesthetics to political fetishism: the "oracle effect" of Frost's poetry -- Virtual Eden: Lolita, pornography, and the perversions of American studies -- Crossing the water: Gunn, Plath, and the poetry of passage -- Virtual Englands: Pynchon's transatlantic heresies -- Virtual Americas: cyberpastoral, transnationalism, and the ideology of exchange.

Subject Term:

American literature -- History and criticism.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Comparative literature -- English and American.

Comparative literature -- American and English.

Nationalism and literature -- United States.

Americans -- Great Britain -- History.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- Foreign public opinion, American.

United States -- Relations -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- Relations -- United States.

United States -- In literature.