Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies
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Edited by:
Julia Straub
About this book
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
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Editors’ Preface
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Contents
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0. Introduction: Transatlantic North American Studies
1 - Part I. Literary Movements and Key Periods in a Transatlantic Perspective
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1. The Colonial Period
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2. The Eighteenth Century and the Literary Marketplace
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3. Transcendentalism, Romanticism, Transatlanticism
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4. Literary Realism and Naturalism
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5. Transatlantic Modernisms
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6. Poetry and Fiction after 9/11
116 - Part II. The Transatlantic Author
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7. T. S. Eliot
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8. Henry James
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9. Elizabeth Stoddard
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10. Margaret Fuller
192 - Part III. Transatlantic Aesthetics: Genres, Styles, Debates
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11. The Early American Novel and Sentimentalism
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12. The American Short Story
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13. Travel Writing
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14. The Transatlantic Gothic
266 - Part IV. Transatlantic Media Cultures
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15. Under the Atlantic
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16. Periodicals and Journalism in Early America
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17. Periodicals and Journalism in Nineteenth- Century America
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18. Transatlantic Comics: Tintin and Superman Crossing the Pond
334 - Part V. Writing the Black Atlantic
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19. The Black Atlantic
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20. The Slave Narrative
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21. Afropolitan Writing
391 - Part VI. Transatlantic Afterlives: Reception Histories
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22. The Transatlantic Publishing Industry: Book Trade, Copyright, Reception, 1776–1891
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23. A Global Player? Transatlantic Shakespeare as an Example of Cultural Circulation Processes
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24. Dickens in America – America in Dickens
448 - Part VII. Transatlantic Canadian Studies
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25. Canadian Studies and Canadian Literature in a Transatlantic Context: Themes, Theories, Images, Life Writing
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26. Transatlantic Dimensions in Canadian Short Story Writing
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27. Multiculturalism in Canadian Fiction
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28. Performance, Identity and Indianer: Canadian Indigenous Crossings of the Atlantic
535 - Part VIII. Widening the Transatlantic Sphere
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29. Dialectics of Slavery and Servitude in Irish‑Caribbean Literature
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30. Irish-American Literature
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31. The Scottish American Enlightenment
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Index of Subjects
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Index of Names
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List of Contributors
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