03450nam 22007814a 450 991077799210332120080321091817.01-283-06421-997866130642190-8223-8404-310.1515/9780822384045(CKB)1000000000757709(EBL)1167852(SSID)ssj0000394842(PQKBManifestationID)11287833(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394842(PQKBWorkID)10388200(PQKB)10503723(OCoLC)191222456(MiAaPQ)EBC1167852(OCoLC)1140777187(MdBmJHUP)muse81120191222456(DE-B1597)554539(DE-B1597)9780822384045(OCoLC)1226678484(EXLCZ)99100000000075770920080125d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVirtual Americas[electronic resource] transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary /Paul GilesDurham [N.C.] Duke University Press20021 online resource (353 p.)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-2967-0 0-8223-2954-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-328) and index.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.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.New Americanists.American literatureHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureLiterature, ComparativeEnglish and AmericanLiterature, ComparativeAmerican and EnglishNationalism and literatureUnited StatesAmericansGreat BritainHistoryGreat BritainForeign public opinion, AmericanUnited StatesRelationsGreat BritainGreat BritainRelationsUnited StatesUnited StatesIn literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Literature, ComparativeEnglish and American.Literature, ComparativeAmerican and English.Nationalism and literatureAmericansHistory.810.9/3273Giles Paul482188NcDNcDBOOK9910777992103321Virtual Americas277294UNINA