Giles, Paul.

The global remapping of American literature [electronic resource] / Paul Giles. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010. - xi, 325 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature -- Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite" -- Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting -- Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest -- Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference.


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American literature--History and criticism.
Geography in literature.
Boundaries in literature.
Space in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.


United States--In literature.


Electronic books.

PS169.G47 / G55 2010eb

810.9/32