The global remapping of American literature
By: Paul Giles
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691136134
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature; title: Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite"; title: Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting; title: Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest; title: Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference.