TY - BOOK AU - Giles,Paul ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Virtual Americas: transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary T2 - New Americanists AV - PS159.G8 G53 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Durham [N.C.] PB - Duke University Press KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Comparative literature KW - English and American KW - American and English KW - Nationalism and literature KW - United States KW - Americans KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Foreign public opinion, American KW - Relations KW - In literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1167852 ER -