Transatlantic Literary Studies : : A Reader / / Susan Manning, Andrew Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Manning, Susan,; Taylor, Andrew,
• MitwirkendeR: Bannet, Eve Tavor,; Bell, Michael Davitt,; Benjamin, Walter,; Boissevain, Jeremy,; Brickhouse, Anna,; Buell, Lawrence,; Campbell, Mary Baine,; Casanova, Pascale,; Certeau, Michel de,; Cheyfitz, Eric,; Cohen, Margaret,; Deleuze, Gilles,; Dimock, Wai Chee,; Fender, Stephen,; Gerassi-Navarro, Nina,; Giles, Paul,; Gilroy, Paul,; Gravil, Richard,; Gross, Robert A.,; Guattari, Félix,; Hall, Stuart,; Hulme, Peter,; Jakobson, Roman,; Kaplan, Amy,; Katz, Daniel,; Manning, Susan,; McFadden, Margaret,; Miller, J. Hillis,; Mills, Nicolaus,; Pease, Donald E.,; Pratt, Mary Louise,; Roach, Joseph,; Robinson, Douglas,; Rowe, John Carlos,; Said, Edward,; Simpson, David,; Snead, James,; Steiner, George,; Stokes, Claudia,; Stowe, William,; Tanner, Tony,; Taylor, Andrew,; Tennenhouse, Leonard,; Warren, Austin,; Weisbuch, Robert,; Wellek, René,; amberlain, Lori,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary StudiesThis Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area.In a substantial Introduction to the volume, leading experts Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor suggest ways in which the transatlantic model can be most effectively used within literary studies. The readings that follow are organised around key ideas - the nation and cosmopolitanism, theories and practice of comparative literature, postcolonialism/imperialism, translation, style and genre, and travel - and provide accessible, annotated examples that demonstrate the different possibilities of comparative analysis. The book represents and promotes an understanding of British, European and American literary culture within a broader framework of transatlantic activity.Key FeaturesDefines the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies as taught in English and American Studies departments.Includes important readings from key critics including J. Hillis Miller, Paul Giles, Edward Said and Paul Gilroy.Provides a full Introduction and section headnotes that contextualise the field.Presents material that explores transatlantic encounters from the early modern period to the present day.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON THE TEXTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PUBLISHER’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY STUDIES? -- PART I THE NATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM -- THE NATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM: INTRODUCTION -- 1 ‘COPYRIGHTING AMERICAN HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT AND THE PERIODIZATION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY’ -- 2 ‘THE TRANSNATIONAL TURN: REDISCOVERING AMERICAN STUDIES IN A WIDER WORLD’ -- 3 ‘NINETEENTH-CENTURY UNITED STATES LITERARY CULTURE AND TRANSNATIONALITY’ -- 4 ‘NATIONAL NARRATIVES, POSTNATIONAL NARRATION’ -- 5 ‘TRANSNATIONALISM AND CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE’ -- 6 ‘THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE CASE FOR TRANSLATION’ -- 7 ‘BETWEEN EMPIRES: FRANCES CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA’S LIFE IN MEXICO’ -- 8 ‘PRINCIPLES OF A HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE’ -- PART II THEORIES AND PRACTICE OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE -- THEORIES AND PRACTICE OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 ‘GENERAL, COMPARATIVE, AND NATIONAL LITERATURE’ -- 2 ‘NOTES TOWARDS A COMPARISON BETWEEN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ROMANTICISM’ -- 3 ‘ENGLISH ROMANTICISM, AMERICAN ROMANTICISM: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?’ -- 4 ‘CULTURAL TIME IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA’ -- 5 ‘NATURE AND WALDEN’ -- 6 ‘ON BEGINNING TO TELL A “BEST-KEPT SECRET”’ -- 7 ‘NETWORK ANALYSIS: A REAPPRAISAL’ -- PART III IMPERIALISM AND THE POSTCOLONIAL -- IMPERIALISM AND THE POSTCOLONIAL: INTRODUCTION -- 1 ‘PROSPERO AND CALIBAN’ -- 2 ‘CULTURAL IDENTITY AND DIASPORA’ -- 3 ‘THE BLACK ATLANTIC AS A COUNTERCULTURE OF MODERNITY’ -- 4 ‘AMERICAN LITERARY EMERGENCE AS A POSTCOLONIAL PHENOMENON’ -- 5 ‘EUROPEAN PEDIGREES/AFRICAN CONTAGIONS: NATIONALITY, NARRATIVE, AND COMMUNITY IN TUTUOLA, ACHEBE, AND REED’ -- 6 ‘DEEP TIME: AMERICAN LITERATURE AND WORLD HISTORY’ -- PART IV TRANSLATION -- TRANSLATION: INTRODUCTION -- 1 ‘THE TASK OF THE TRANSLATOR’ -- 2 ‘ON LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION’ -- 3 ‘THE HERMENEUTIC MOTION’ -- 4 ‘THE TROPICS OF TRANSLATION’ -- 5 ‘GENDER AND THE METAPHORICS OF TRANSLATION’ -- 6 ‘JACK SPICER’S AFTER LORCA: TRANSLATION AS DECOMPOSITION’ -- 7 ‘THE FRENCH CARIBBEANIZATION OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY: A POETICS OF ANTICOLONIALISM’ -- PART V STYLE AND GENRE -- STYLE AND GENRE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 ‘ELOQUENCE AND TRANSLATION’ -- 2 ‘INTRODUCTION: RHIZOME’ -- 3 ‘TRAVELING GENRES’ -- 4 ‘INTRODUCTION: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND PERFORMANCE’ -- 5 ‘ROMANCE AND RATIONAL ORTHODOXY’ -- 6 ‘THE FAILURE OF GENRE CRITICISM’ -- 7 ‘EMPIRE AND OCCASIONAL CONFORMITY: DAVID FORDYCE’S COMPLETE BRITISH LETTER-WRITER’ -- 8 ‘THE AMERICANIZATION OF CLARISSA’ -- PART VI TRAVEL -- TRAVEL: INTRODUCTION -- 1 ‘REFLECTIONS ON EXILE’ -- 2 ‘ETHNO-GRAPHY: SPEECH, OR THE SPACE OF THE OTHER: JEAN DE LÉRY’ -- 3 ‘INTRODUCTION’ TO SEA CHANGES -- 4 ‘THE REWARDS OF TRAVEL’ -- 5 ‘INTRODUCTION’ TO IMPERIAL EYES AND ‘HUMBOLDT AS TRANSCULTURATOR’ -- 6 ‘TRAVEL WRITING AND ITS THEORY’ -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- INDEX