Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk : : Networks in US American Literature and Culture /

Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk : : Networks in US American Literature and Culture / / Regina Schober.

Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk explores the shifting functions of the network as a metaphor, model, and as an epistemological framework in US American literature and culture from the 19th century until today. The book critically inquires into the literary, cultural, philosophical, and scienti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
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Schober, Regina,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 82
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Permissions Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk
  • 1 Introduction: The Network in US American Literature and Culture
  • 2 Project(ing an) Interconnected America: Nineteenth Century Visions of Material Networks, Transcendental Links, and Alternative Communities
  • 3 “A Movement Toward Expanded Connectedness” – Networks of Evolution in Pragmatist and Naturalist Literature
  • 4 Mapping Alternatives: Postwar Networks and the Forking Paths of Knowledge
  • 5 Recentering the Human: Contemporary Fiction and the Popularization of the Network
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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