03668nam 22008774a 450 991095631700332120080321091817.09786613064219978128306421712830642199780822384045082238404310.1515/9780822384045(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(Perlego)1467352(EXLCZ)99100000000075770920080125d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVirtual Americas 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.9780822329671 0822329670 9780822329541 0822329549 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.e-Duke books scholarly collection.New Americanists.American literatureHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureComparative literatureEnglish and AmericanComparative literatureAmerican and EnglishNationalism and literatureUnited StatesAmericansGreat BritainHistoryGreat BritainForeign public opinion, AmericanUnited StatesRelationsGreat BritainGreat BritainRelationsUnited StatesUnited StatesIn literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Comparative literatureEnglish and American.Comparative literatureAmerican and English.Nationalism and literatureAmericansHistory.810.9/3273810.93273Giles Paul482188MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956317003321Virtual Americas277294UNINA