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Author(s): Giles, Paul
ISBN(s): 9781400836512, 1400836514
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 8.74 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1400836514
ISBN 13: 9781400836512
Author: Paul Giles

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, José Martí, 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.

The global remapping of American literature 1st Table of contents:

PART ONE: TEMPORAL LATITUDES
1 AUGUSTAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN AESTHETICS OF EXTRAVAGANCE
restoration legacies: cook and byrd
the plantation epic: magnalia christi americana
new world topographies: wheatley, dwight, alsop

2 MEDIEVAL AMERICAN LITERATURE: ANTEBELLUM NARRATIVES AND THE “MAP OF THE INFINITE”
emerson, longfellow, and the longue duree
“medieval” mound builders and the archaeological imagination
hawthorne, melville, and the question of genealogy

PART TWO: THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NATION
3 THE ARCS OF MODERNISM: GEOGRAPHY AS ALLEGORY
postbellum cartographies: william dean howells
ethnic palimpsests, national standards
“description without place”: stevens, stein, and modernist geographies

4 SUBURB, NETWORK, HOMELAND: NATIONAL SPACE AND THE RHETORIC OF BROADCASTING
“voice of america”: roth, morrison, delillo
lost in space: john updike
the mtv generation: wallace and eggers

PART THREE: SPATIAL LONGITUDES
5 HEMISPHERIC PARALLAX: SOUTH AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH
rotating perspectives: bartram, simms, marti
regionalism and pseudo-geography: hurston and bishop
mississippi vulgate: faulkner and barthelme

6 METAREGIONALISM: THE GLOBAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST
reversible coordinates: the epistemology of space
orient and orientation: snyder, le guin, brautigan
virtual canadas: gibson and coupland

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