The Global Remapping of American Literature

by Paul Giles

Book Overview

This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691180784
• ISBN13: 9780691180786
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"