| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Series |
Oxford studies in American literary history ; 5 |
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Oxford studies in American literary history ; 5.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 . American Literature and the Antipodean Imaginary: Imperialism, Transnationalism, Surrealism; 2 . Parallax Zones: The Founding Fathers and Austral Enlightenment; Satiric Double-Binds: Benjamin Franklin's Biloquism; Planetary Perspectives: Crèvecoeur's New Holland; Transposing the West: Jefferson and Ledyard; 3 . Early National Orbits: Geography, Astronomy, and the Cycles of the Earth; Freneau, Alsop, and Neoclassical Style; Joel Barlow: The Columbiad; Charles Brockden Brown: Systems of General Geography |
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4 . Aurora Australis: Antebellum Seascapes and the Southern CrossThe Hidden Antipodes: Irving's "Globular" Narratives; The Southern Sea: Dana and Poe; "Ex Ex" Narratives: Wilkes and Cooper; 5 . Transcendental Burlesque: Reorienting Manifest Destiny; "The Other Side of the Sphere": Melville and Australasia; Rotating the Axis: The Gold Rush Circuit; "The Earth reversed her Hemispheres": Dickinson's Antipodality; 6 . Empire Upside Down: Victorian Globalization and Colonial Equations; Civil War, Imperial Circumference: Lincoln and Trollope |
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Family Romance, Domestic Disturbance: Kingsley and SouthworthSpatiotemporal Triangulation: Henry Adams; The Laughing Jackass: Twain's Latitudinal Parallels; 7 . Ancestral Modernisms: Indigeneity and the Articulation of Distance; Irish Aesthetic Nativism: John Boyle O'Reilly; Racialism and Socialism: Jack London; The Primitivist Paradox: Federation's "weird country"; 8 . Transpacific Transgression: Gender Remapping and World Revolutions; The Boundaries of Utopia: Howells, Gilman, Miles Franklin; Lola Ridge and the Appulsive Avant-Garde; "The Twinness of Things": Stead's Surrealist Dialectic |
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9 . Pacific Theaters: The Poetry of Violence, from World War II to VietnamKarl Shapiro's "backward crab"; Louis Simpson: Racial Métissage and Southern Pastoral; The New York Poets: Inversion and Misrepresentation; "America rhymes with Australia": Yusef Komunyakaa; 10 . Antipodean American Postmodernism: Turning the Subject Inside Out; Irish Intertexts: Chandler and Keneally; Contrarian Tendencies: Hazzard, Rushdie, Carey; "Transposabilities": The Posthumanist Spectrum; J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Disorientation; Conclusion: American Literature's Terra Incognita; Works Cited; Index; A; B |
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CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, 'Antipodean America' identifies the surprising affinites between Australian and American literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2014) |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Geography in literature.
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American literature
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Geography in literature
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| SUBJECT |
Australasia -- In literature
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| Subject |
Australasia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199369218 |
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0199369216 |
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