Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary

by Paul Giles

Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it--placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks at a number of canonical nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers by focusing on their interactions with British culture. He demonstrates how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329670
• ISBN13: 9780822329671
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.3"