The global remapping of American literature / Paul Giles.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 325 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of 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.