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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism. Geography in literature. Boundaries in literature. Space in literature. Regionalism in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature.