Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary

Paul Giles

Published by Duke University Press 2002

Virtual Americas

Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary

Paul Giles
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384045

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About this book

A discussion on the ways in which representations in the U.S. have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era.

Author / Editor information

Paul Giles is Reader in American Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his books are Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730–1860; and American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics.

Reviews

“Virtual Americas is an ambitious, wide-ranging, well-written, and strikingly original text. There aren't many books about which one can say all those things—I think it will cause something of a stir.”—Lucy Maddox, Georgetown University

“Paul Giles's Virtual Americas is a major contribution to recent debates about transnationalism, U.S. and English cultural relations in the modern and postmodern eras, and the impact of these topics on the old and new American Studies. This is a first-rate book.”—John Carlos Rowe, University of California, Irvine

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Virtual Subjects: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
3. ‘‘Bewildering Intertanglement’’: Melville’s Engagement with British Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. ‘‘Changed and Queer’’: Henry James and the Surrealization of America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
5. From Decadent Aesthetics to Political Fetishism: The ‘‘Oracle Effect’’ of Frost’s Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
6. Virtual Eden: Lolita, Pornography, and the Perversions of American Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
7. Crossing the Water: Gunn, Plath, and the Poetry of Passage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
8. Virtual Englands: Pynchon’s Transatlantic Heresies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
9. Virtual Americas: Cyberpastoral, Transnationalism, and the Ideology of Exchange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 352

eBook

Published: August 15, 2002
ISBN: 9780822384045