The Global Remapping of American Literature

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 th...

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Main Author	Giles, Paul
Format	eBook Book
Language	English
Published	Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2011
Edition	1
Subjects	allegory American American broadcasting American Civil War American culture American literary studies American literature American literature > History and criticism American Renaissance American South antebellum narratives Augustan American literature Boundaries in literature cartography Cotton Mather Dave Eggers David Foster Wallace deterritorialization Don DeLillo Douglas Coupland electronic media Elizabeth Bishop European medievalism extravagance F. O. Matthiessen F. Scott Fitzgerald Flix Guattari Gary Snyder geography Geography in literature Gertrude Stein Gilles Deleuze globalization History and criticism In literature Jos Mart Language & Literature liberal democracy LITERARY CRITICISM LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Magnalia Christi Americana medieval American literature medievalism metaregionalism modernism narratives Nathaniel Hawthorne National characteristics, American, in literature national space Native Americans New England Pacific Northwest Philip Roth Phillis Wheatley place plantations poetry pseudo-geography Ralph Waldo Emerson regionalism Regionalism in literature Richard Brautigan Semiotics & Theory social boundaries South America space Space in literature technological innovations Timothy Dwight Toni Morrison transnationalism U.S. national identity United States United States > In literature Ursula Le Guin Voice of America Wallace Stevens William Dean Howells William Faulkner William Gibson William Gilmore Simms Zora Neale Hurston South America extravagance medievalism American Civil War William Faulkner social boundaries William Gilmore Simms pseudo-geography Flix Guattari medieval American literature modernism national space space transnationalism Wallace Stevens geography American culture F. O. Matthiessen Philip Roth F. Scott Fitzgerald Voice of America American literature narratives Dave Eggers Jos Mart Ralph Waldo Emerson cartography Don DeLillo Douglas Coupland New England Ursula Le Guin Native Americans metaregionalism Zora Neale Hurston Augustan American literature American Renaissance regionalism Nathaniel Hawthorne Phillis Wheatley Cotton Mather European medievalism Richard Brautigan American literary studies electronic media Toni Morrison William Gibson technological innovations Gertrude Stein U.S. national identity place Elizabeth Bishop Pacific Northwest poetry American broadcasting Magnalia Christi Americana globalization Gary Snyder Timothy Dwight allegory plantations American South deterritorialization liberal democracy William Dean Howells Gilles Deleuze David Foster Wallace antebellum narratives
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ISBN	0691136130 9780691136134 0691180784 9780691180786 1400836514 9781400836512
DOI	10.1515/9781400836512

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Summary:	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.
Bibliography:	Bibliography: p. [269]-304 Includes index
ISBN:	0691136130 9780691136134 0691180784 9780691180786 1400836514 9781400836512
DOI:	10.1515/9781400836512