Virtual Americas [electronic resource] : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary / Paul Giles.

By: Giles, PaulContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002Description: xiii, 337 pSubject(s): 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 | Great Britain -- Foreign public opinion, American | United States -- Relations -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Relations -- United States | United States -- In literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: PS159.G8 | G53 2002Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-328) and index.

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.

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