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Autore |
Giles Paul |
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Titolo |
Virtual Americas : transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary / / Paul Giles |
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Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2002 |
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1-283-06421-9 |
9786613064219 |
0-8223-8404-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Collana |
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American literature - History and criticism |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Literature, Comparative - English and American |
Literature, Comparative - American and English |
Nationalism and literature - United States |
Americans - Great Britain - History |
Great Britain Foreign public opinion, American |
United States Relations Great Britain |
Great Britain Relations United States |
United States In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-328) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Virtual subjects: transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary -- Narrative reversals and power exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British culture -- "Bewildering" intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British tradition -- "Changed and queer": Henry James and the surrealization of America -- From decadent aesthetics to political fetishism: the "oracle effect" of Frost's poetry -- Virtual Eden: Lolita, pornography, and the perversions of American studies -- Crossing the water: Gunn, Plath, and the poetry of passage -- Virtual Englands: Pynchon's transatlantic heresies -- Virtual Americas: cyberpastoral, transnationalism, and the ideology of exchange. |
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