Transatlantic Literary Studies

by Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780801887314
• ISBN10: 0801887313
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-25
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

This groundbreaking volume is the first to define the emergent field of transatlantic literary studies. It brings together a wide range of material to explore the theoretical and literary possibilities of the transatlantic world as an arena for textual and intellectual exchange.In their introduction, the editors suggest ways in which the transatlantic paradigm offers renewed potential for literary study that for too long has been tied to the ideological and political requirements of the nation-state. The Reader provides accessible, annotated examples of theoretical frameworks that provoke further scholarly inquiry and important works of literary criticism that demonstrate different possibilities of comparative analysis. This important compilation represents and promotes the conceptualization of American culture within the broader context of transatlantic activity.

Author Biography

Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Andrew Taylor is a lecturer in American Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Note on the Texts	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Publisher's Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: What is Transatlantic Literary Studies?	p. 1
The Nation and Cosmopolitanism
Introduction	p. 17
'Copywriting American History: International Copyright and the Periodization of the Nineteenth Century'	p. 23
'The Transnational Turn: Rediscovering American Studies in a Wider World'	p. 31
'Nineteenth-Century United States Literary Culture and Transnationality'	p. 35
'National Narratives, Postnational Narration'	p. 39
'Transnationalism and Classic American Literature'	p. 44
'The Limits of Cosmopolitanism and the Case for Translation'	p. 53
'Between Empires: Frances Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico'	p. 58
'Principles of a History of World Literature'	p. 65
Theories and Practice of Comparative Literature
Introduction	p. 75
'General, Comparative, and National Literature'	p. 80
'Notes Towards a Comparison Between European and American Romanticism'	p. 82
'English Romanticism, American Romanticism: What's the Difference?'	p. 89
'Cultural Time in England and America'	p. 97
'Nature and Walden'	p. 105
'On Beginning to Tell a "Best-Kept Secret"'	p. 111
'Network Analysis: A Reappraisal'	p. 115
Imperialism and the Postcolonial
Introduction	p. 121
'Prospero and Caliban'	p. 126
'Cultural Identity and Diaspora'	p. 131
'The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity'	p. 139
'American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon'	p. 147
'European Pedigrees/African Contagions: Nationality, Narrative, and Community in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed'	p. 156
'Deep Time: American Literature and World History'	p. 160
Translation
Introduction	p. 167
'The Task of the Translator'	p. 172
'On Linguistic Aspects of Translation'	p. 182
'The Hermeneutic Motion'	p. 184
'The Tropics of Translation'	p. 189
'Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation'	p. 194
'Jack Spicer's After Lorca: Translation as Decomposition'	p. 201
'The French Caribbeanization of Phillis Wheatley: A Poetics of Anticolonialism'	p. 207
Style and Genre
Introduction	p. 215
'Eloquence and Translation'	p. 221
'Introduction: Rhizome'	p. 226
'Traveling Genres'	p. 232
'Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance'	p. 236
'Romance and Rational Orthodoxy'	p. 249
'The Failure of Genre Criticism'	p. 256
'Empire and Occasional Conformity: David Fordyce's Complete British Letter-Writer'	p. 263
'The Americanization of Clarissa'	p. 272
Travel
Introduction	p. 281
'Reflections on Exile'	p. 285
'Ethno-Graphy: Speech, or the Space of the Other: Jean de Lery'	p. 291
'Introduction' to Sea Changes	p. 298
'The Rewards of Travel'	p. 303
'Introduction' to Imperial Eyes, and 'Humboldt as Transculturator'	p. 312
'Travel Writing and its Theory'	p. 316
Glossary of Terms	p. 329
Index	p. 341
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