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Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary / Paul Giles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giles, Paul.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Comparative literature--English and American.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--American and English.
- Nationalism and literature--United States.
- Nationalism and literature.
- Americans--Great Britain--History.
- Americans.
- Great Britain--Foreign public opinion, American.
- Great Britain.
- United States--Relations--Great Britain.
- United States.
- Great Britain--Relations--United States.
- United States--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Virtual subjects: transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary
- Narrative reversals and power exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British culture
- "Bewildering" intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British tradition
- "Changed and queer": Henry James and the surrealization of America
- From decadent aesthetics to political fetishism: the "oracle effect" of Frost's poetry
- Virtual Eden: Lolita, pornography, and the perversions of American studies
- Crossing the water: Gunn, Plath, and the poetry of passage
- Virtual Englands: Pynchon's transatlantic heresies
- Virtual Americas: cyberpastoral, transnationalism, and the ideology of exchange.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064219
- 9781283064217
- 1283064219
- 9780822384045
- 0822384043
- OCLC:
- 191222456
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