The global remapping of American literature / Paul Giles.

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This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giles, Paul
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Geography in literature.
Boundaries in literature.
Space in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
United States > In literature.
Physical Description:xi, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature
  • Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite"
  • Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting
  • Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest
  • Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference.