American Writers in Europe 1850 to the Present

by Asya, Ferdâ; Johnson, Diane E.; Johnson, Diane

• ISBN13: 9781137340016
• ISBN10: 1137340010
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-10-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

American Writers in Europe explores the impartial critical outlook that American writers acquired in different parts of Europe, from 1850 to the present, and used as a lens to view Europe and America. Focusing on some less familiar writers, it reveals intriguing aspects of the lives and works of American writers than those of the customarily anthologized expatriates. Offering a broad range of American experiences in Europe in an extensive span of time, the volume widens the history of the transatlantic cultural and literary dialogue between America and Europe.

Author Biography

Ferdâ Asya is Associate Professor of English and Director of Gender Studies at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Ferdâ Asya
1. The Search for Legitimacy in Nathaniel Parker Willis's Paul Fane; Udo Nattermann
2. 'God permits the tares to grow with the wheat': E.D.E.N. Southworth in Great Britain, 1859-1862; Ann Beebe
3. Gertrude Atherton's Europe: Portal or Looking Glass?; Windy Counsell Petrie
4. The London Making of a Modernist: John Cournos in Babel; Marilyn Schwinn Smith
5. Toward a Brighter Vision of 'American Ways and Their Meaning': Edith Wharton and the Americanization of Europe after the First World War; Jenny Glennon
6. American Writers in Europe Exploring the 'Unknown' in Their Own Time: Edith Wharton in Morocco and Diane Johnson's Lulu in Marrakech; Ferdâ Asya
7. 'Homeland strangeness': American Poets in Spain, 1936-1939; Robin Vogelzang
8. Fulbright Poems: Locating Europe and America in the Cold War; Diederik Oostdijk
9. Allen Ginsberg and the Beats in Literary Paris, or Apollinaire through the Door of Ginsberg's Mind; Richard Swope
10. Almost French: Food, Class, and Gender in Contemporary American Women Expatriate Memoirs; Malin Lidström Brock