Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader (Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures) - Softcover

Susan Manning

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074862287X ISBN 13: 9780748622870

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary StudiesThis Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area. In a substantial Introduction to the volume, leading experts Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor suggest ways in which the transatlantic model can be most effectively used within literary studies. The readings that follow are organised around key ideas - the nation and cosmopolitanism, theories and practice of comparative literature, postcolonialism/imperialism, translation, style and genre, and travel - and provide accessible, annotated examples that demonstrate the different possibilities of comparative analysis. The book represents and promotes an understanding of British, European and American literary culture within a broader framework of transatlantic activity. Key Features*Defines the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies as taught in English and American Studies departments.*Includes important readings from key critics including J. Hillis Miller, Paul Giles, Edward Said and Paul Gilroy.*Provides a full Introduction and section headnotes that contextualise the field.*Presents material that explores transatlantic encounters from the early modern period to the present day.

About this title

About the Authors

The late Susan Manning was Grierson Professor of English Literature, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Henry James and the Father Question (2002), Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Experience (2010), co-author of Thomas Pynchon (2013) and co-editor of If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection (EUP, 2018). He co-edits the book series Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074862287X
• ISBN 13: 9780748622870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Susan Manning, Andrew Taylor