Virtual Americas transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary / [electronic resource] :
Paul Giles.
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2002.
- xiii, 337 p.
- New Americanists .
- e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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--History.--Great Britain
Great Britain--Foreign public opinion, American. United States--Relations--Great Britain. Great Britain--Relations--United States. United States--In literature.