Kapitel in diesem Buch

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