Transatlantic Literary Studies
A Reader
1st Edition
Published on 5. August 2019
368 pages
978-1-4744-7067-4 (ISBN)
Description
The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies. The Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Note on the Texts
- Acknowledgements
- Publishers Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What is Transatlantic Literary Studies?
- PART I: THE NATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM
- Introduction
- 1 Copyrighting American History: International Copyright and the Periodization of the Nineteenth Century'
- 2 'The Transnational Turn: Rediscovering American Studies In A Wider World'
- 3 'Nineteenth-Century United States Literary Culture and Transnationality'
- 4 'National Narratives, Postnational Narration'
- 5' Transnationalism and Classc American Literature'
- 6 'The Limits of Cosmopolitanism and the Case for Translation'
- 7 'Between Empires: Frances Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico'
- 8 'Principles of a History of World Literature'
- PART II THEORIES AND PRACTICE OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
- Introduction
- 1 'General, Comparative, and National Literature'
- 2 'Notes Towards a Comparison Between European and American Romanticism'
- 3 'English Romanticism, American Romanticism: What's the Difference?'
- 4 'Cultural Time in England and America'
- 5 'Nature and Walden'
- 6 'On Beginning to Tell a "Best-Kept" Secret'
- 7 'Network Analysis: A Reappraisal'
- PART III: IMPERIALISM ANDTHE POSTCOLONIAL
- Introduction
- 1 'Prospero and Caliban'
- 2 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora'
- 3 'The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity'
- 4 'American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon'
- 5 'European Pedigrees/African Contagions: Nationality, Narrative, and Community in Tutuola, Achebe and Reed'
- 6 'Deep Time: America Literature and World History'
- PART IV TRANSLATION
- Introduction
- 1 'The Task of the Translator'
- 2 'On Linguistic Aspects of Translation'
- 3 'The Hermeneutic Motion'
- 4 'The Tropics of Translation'
- 5 'Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation'
- 6 'Jack Spicer's After Lorca: Translation as Decomposition'
- 7 'The French Caribbeanization of Phillis Wheatley: A Poetics of Anticolonialism'
- PART V: STYLE AND GENRE
- Introduction
- 1 'Eloquence and Translation'
- 2 'Introduction: Rhizome'
- 3 'Traveling Genres'
- 4 Introduction: History, Memory and Performance'
- 5 'Romance and Rational Orthodoxy'
- 6 'The Failure or Genre Criticism'
- 7 'Empire and Occasional Conformity: David Fordyce's Complete British Lette-Writer'
- 8 'The Americanization of Clarissa'
- PART VI: TRAVEL
- Introduction
- 1 'Reflections on Exile'
- 2 'Ethno-graphy: Speech, or the Space of the Other: Jean de Léry'
- 3 'Introduction' to Sea Changes
- 4 'The Rewards of Travel'
- 5 'Introduction' to Imperial Eyes and 'Humboldt as Transculator'
- 6 'Travel Writing and its Theory'
- Glossary of Terms
- Index
