Title Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary / Paul Giles

Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages) Series New Americanists New Americanists. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-328) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American literature -- History and criticism. National characteristics, American, in literature. Comparative literature -- English and American Comparative literature -- American and English Nationalism and literature -- United States Americans -- Great Britain -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature. Americans. Comparative literature -- American and English. Comparative literature -- English and American. International relations. Literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. Nationalism and literature. Public opinion, American. Engels. Amerikaans. Letterkunde. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign public opinion, American United States -- Relations -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Relations -- United States United States -- In literature Subject Great Britain. United States. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2002003057 ISBN 9780822384045 0822384043

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