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Virtual Americas
Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
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2002
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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.
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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.
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“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
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CONTENTS
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Preface
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1. Virtual Subjects: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
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2. Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British Culture
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3. ‘‘Bewildering Intertanglement’’: Melville’s Engagement with British Tradition
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4. ‘‘Changed and Queer’’: Henry James and the Surrealization of America
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5. From Decadent Aesthetics to Political Fetishism: The ‘‘Oracle Effect’’ of Frost’s Poetry
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6. Virtual Eden: Lolita, Pornography, and the Perversions of American Studies
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7. Crossing the Water: Gunn, Plath, and the Poetry of Passage
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8. Virtual Englands: Pynchon’s Transatlantic Heresies
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9. Virtual Americas: Cyberpastoral, Transnationalism, and the Ideology of Exchange
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Notes
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Index
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9780822384045
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