Reading Across the Pacific : Australia-United States Intellectual Histories.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Robert.

Contributor:

Birns, New York University, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia.

Contents:

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Section 1 - Transpacific: National Literatures and Transnationalism

1 Antipodal Propinquities? Environmental (Mis)Perceptions in American and Australian Literary History

2 Antipodean America: Charles Brockden Brown, New Holland, and the Constitution of US Literature

3 Transcendentalism, Emerson and Nineteenth-Century Australian Literary Culture

4 Looking to American Manhood: The Correspondence of Alfred Deakin and Josiah Royce

5 American Friends: Clinton Hartley Grattan and W.W. Norton

6 Missed Appointments: Convergences and Disjunctures in Reading Australia Across the Pacific

Section 2 - Poetry and Poetics

7 East–West Turnings: Australian and American Poetry in Light of Asia

8 Smooth and Troubled Passages Across the Pacific

Section 3 - Literature and Popular Culture

9 Transnational Connectivities of Whiteness: American Blackface in Life in Sydney

10 The Novel Newspaper and its Role in the Transmission of American Fiction to Australia

11 Elvis Down Under: Simulations of a US Pop Icon in Australian Fiction

12 Cold Dreams: National Efforts and Global Visions in Antarctic Arts Programs

Section 4 - The Cold War

13 Troubled Waters: Australian Spies in the Pacific—Glimpses from the Early Twentieth Century

14 ‘A Skyrocket Waiting to Be Let Off’, but to Where? Christina Stead’s First Impressions of the United States and Her Postwar Literary Rehabilitation

15 The ‘American Dilemma’: Christina Stead’s Cold War Anatomy

16 An Imperishable Spring? Stow’s Tourmaline, the Cold War and the Phenomenon of the Star

17 ‘Turning a Place into a Field’: Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire and Cold War Area Studies

Section 5 - Publishing History and Transpacific Print Cultures

18 Literary Appreciation, American-Style: Channels of Influence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia

19 New York City Limits: Australian Novels and American Print Culture

20 Rejected by America? Some Tensions in Australian–American Literary Relations Generated by AI.

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Other Format:

Print version: Dixon, Robert Reading Across the Pacific

ISBN:

9781743320938

OCLC:

1443084313