Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies

Edited by: Julia Straub

Volume 3 in the series Handbooks of English and American Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376739

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Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revision of literary history and the idea of a national literature. They have changed the perception of the Anglo-American literary market and its many processes of transatlantic production, distribution, reception and criticism. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of ‘influence,’ transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American, British and Irish literature as linked with each other by virtue of multi-layered historical and cultural ties and pay special attention to the many refractions and mutual interferences that have characterized these traditions since colonial times.

This handbook brings together articles that summarize some of the crucial transatlantic concepts, debates and topics. The contributions contained in this volume examine periods in literary and cultural history, literary movements, individual authors as well as genres from a transatlantic perspective, combining theoretical insight with textual analysis.

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Julia Straub, University of Berne, Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
0. Introduction: Transatlantic North American Studies Julia Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Literary Movements and Key Periods in a Transatlantic Perspective
1. The Colonial Period Clemens Spahr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. The Eighteenth Century and the Literary Marketplace Natalie Roxburgh and Anna Auguscik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Transcendentalism, Romanticism, Transatlanticism Diane Piccitto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Literary Realism and Naturalism Gert Buelens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. Transatlantic Modernisms Matthew Eatough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. Poetry and Fiction after 9/11 Christian Kloeckner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Part II. The Transatlantic Author
7. T. S. Eliot Günter Leypoldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
8. Henry James Susan Winnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
9. Elizabeth Stoddard Claudia Lillge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
10. Margaret Fuller Phyllis Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Part III. Transatlantic Aesthetics: Genres, Styles, Debates
11. The Early American Novel and Sentimentalism Philipp Schweighauser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12. The American Short Story Oliver Scheiding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
13. Travel Writing Jennifer Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
14. The Transatlantic Gothic Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Part IV. Transatlantic Media Cultures
15. Under the Atlantic Christopher Hanlon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
16. Periodicals and Journalism in Early America Tim Lanzendörfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
17. Periodicals and Journalism in Nineteenth- Century America Tim Lanzendörfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
18. Transatlantic Comics: Tintin and Superman Crossing the Pond Lukas Etter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
Part V. Writing the Black Atlantic
19. The Black Atlantic Alasdair Pettinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
20. The Slave Narrative Helen Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
21. Afropolitan Writing Betiel Wasihun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Part VI. Transatlantic Afterlives: Reception Histories
22. The Transatlantic Publishing Industry: Book Trade, Copyright, Reception, 1776–1891 Annika Bautz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
23. A Global Player? Transatlantic Shakespeare as an Example of Cultural Circulation Processes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	428
24. Dickens in America – America in Dickens Ursula Kluwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	448
Part VII. Transatlantic Canadian Studies
25. Canadian Studies and Canadian Literature in a Transatlantic Context: Themes, Theories, Images, Life Writing Martin Kuester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
26. Transatlantic Dimensions in Canadian Short Story Writing Maria Löschnigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	492
27. Multiculturalism in Canadian Fiction Hanne Birk and Marion Gymnich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	513
28. Performance, Identity and Indianer: Canadian Indigenous Crossings of the Atlantic Nicole Perry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
Part VIII. Widening the Transatlantic Sphere
29. Dialectics of Slavery and Servitude in Irish‑Caribbean Literature Kathryn Stelmach Artuso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	557
30. Irish-American Literature Avshalom Guissin and Tara Stubbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	572
31. The Scottish American Enlightenment Jane Judge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	605
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	621

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 622
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 25
Keywords: American Literature; British Literature; Anglophone Literature; Transatlantic Literary Studies

eBook

Published: May 10, 2016
ISBN: 9783110376739

Hardcover

Published: June 6, 2016
ISBN: 9783110376371