Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk : Networks in US American Literature and Culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schober, Regina.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; v.82

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Permissions Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk

1 Introduction: The Network in US American Literature and Culture

2 Project(ing an) Interconnected America: Nineteenth Century Visions of Material Networks, Transcendental Links, and Alternative Communities

3 "A Movement Toward Expanded Connectedness" - Networks of Evolution in Pragmatist and Naturalist Literature

4 Mapping Alternatives: Postwar Networks and the Forking Paths of Knowledge

5 Recentering the Human: Contemporary Fiction and the Popularization of the Network

6 Conclusion

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783111060590

3111060594

OCLC:

1390918383