Transatlantic literary studies : a reader / edited by Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manning, Susan, 1953-2013.

Taylor, Andrew, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--American and English.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--English and American.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

xiv, 343 p ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This groundbreaking volume is the first to define the emergent field of transatlantic literary studies. It brings together a wide range of material to explore the theoretical and literary possibilities of the transatlantic world as an arena for textual and intellectual exchange.

In their introduction, the editors suggest ways in which the transatlantic paradigm offers renewed potential for literary study that for too long has been tied to the ideological and political requirements of the nation-state. The Reader provides accessible, annotated examples of theoretical frameworks that provoke further scholarly inquiry and important works of literary criticism that demonstrate different possibilities of comparative analysis. This important compilation represents and promotes the conceptualization of American culture within the broader context of transatlantic activity.

Contents:

Publisher's Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: What is Transatlantic Literary Studies? 1

Part I The Nation and Cosmopolitanism

1 'Copywriting American History: International Copyright and the Periodization of the Nineteenth Century' / Claudia Stokes 23

2 'The Transnational Turn: Rediscovering American Studies in a Wider World' / Robert A. Gross 31

3 'Nineteenth-Century United States Literary Culture and Transnationality' / John Carlos Rowe 35

4 'National Narratives, Postnational Narration' / Donald E. Pease 39

5 'Transnationalism and Classic American Literature' / Paul Giles 44

6 'The Limits of Cosmopolitanism and the Case for Translation' / David Simpson 53

7 'Between Empires: Frances Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico' / Amy Kaplan, Nina Gerassi-Navarro 58

8 'Principles of a History of World Literature' / Pascale Casanova 65

Part II Theories and Practice of Comparative Literature

1 'General, Comparative, and National Literature' / Rene Wellek, Austin Warren 80

2 'Notes Towards a Comparison Between European and American Romanticism' / Tony Tanner 82

3 'English Romanticism, American Romanticism: What's the Difference?' / J. Hillis Miller 89

4 'Cultural Time in England and America' / Robert Weisbuch 97

5 'Nature and Walden' / Richard Gravil 105

6 'On Beginning to Tell a "Best-Kept Secret"' / Margaret McFadden 111

7 'Network Analysis: A Reappraisal' / Jeremy Boissevain 115

Part III Imperialism and the Postcolonial

1 'Prospero and Caliban' / Peter Hulme 126

2 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora' / Stuart Hall 131

3 'The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity' / Paul Gilroy 139

4 'American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon' / Lawrence Buell 147

5 'European Pedigrees/African Contagions: Nationality, Narrative, and Community in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed' / James Snead 156

6 'Deep Time: American Literature and World History' / Wai Chee Dimock 160

1 'The Task of the Translator' / Walter Benjamin 172

2 'On Linguistic Aspects of Translation' / Roman Jakobson 182

3 'The Hermeneutic Motion' / George Steiner 184

4 'The Tropics of Translation' / Douglas Robinson 189

5 'Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation' / Lori Chamberlain 194

6 'Jack Spicer's After Lorca: Translation as Decomposition' / Daniel Katz 201

7 'The French Caribbeanization of Phillis Wheatley: A Poetics of Anticolonialism' / Anna Brickhouse 207

Part V Style and Genre

1 'Eloquence and Translation' / Eric Cheyfitz 221

2 'Introduction: Rhizome' / Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari 226

3 'Traveling Genres' / Margaret Cohen 232

4 'Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance' / Joseph Roach 236

5 'Romance and Rational Orthodoxy' / Michael Davitt Bell 249

6 'The Failure of Genre Criticism' / Nicolaus Mills 256

7 'Empire and Occasional Conformity: David Fordyce's Complete British Letter-Writer' / Eve Tavor Bannet 263

8 'The Americanization of Clarissa' / Leonard Tennenhouse 272

Part VI Travel

1 'Reflections on Exile' / Edward Said 285

2 'Ethno-Graphy: Speech, or the Space of the Other: Jean de Lery' / Michel de Certeau 291

3 'Introduction' to Sea Changes / Stephen Fender 298

4 'The Rewards of Travel' / William Stowe 303

5 'Introduction' to Imperial Eyes, and 'Humboldt as Transculturator' / Mary Louise Pratt 312

6 'Travel Writing and its Theory' / Mary Baine Campbell 316.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801887307

0801887305

0801887313

OCLC:

131320375