Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801887313 ISBN 13: 9780801887314

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Review

"Here is a reader that culls the most important, brilliant, and groundbreaking pieces of literary criticism on a comparatist approach to American Studies and offers them to readers in one binding. It is a significant, timely critical achievement, and it is certain to be praised by students and scholars alike."

(Joel Pace, University of Wisconsin)

"Recent events in the global political arena have led to a revaluation in the study of the Atlantic literatures and cultures. Manning and Taylor's reader brings together a wide range of criticism, from René Wellek to Wai Chee Dimock, to show that our understanding of those literatures and cultures is freshly derived yet firmly rooted. The book has a substantial introductory chapter and is shrewdly organised into six theoretical and thematic groups, each given a perceptive prologue. It will be required reading for years to come."

(Robert Lawson-Peebles, University of Exeter)

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0801887313
• ISBN 13: 9780801887314
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Manning Susan, Taylor Andrew