Virtual Americas
Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2002
352 pages
978-0-8223-8404-5 (ISBN)
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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.
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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.
Content
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
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
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