Antipodean America : Australasia and the constitution of U.S. literature /
A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, 'Antipodean America' identifies the surprising affinites between Australian and American literature.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 . American Literature and the Antipodean Imaginary: Imperialism, Transnationalism, Surrealism; 2 . Parallax Zones: The Founding Fathers and Austral Enlightenment; Satiric Double-Binds: Benjamin Franklin's Biloquism; Planetary Perspectives: Crèvecoeur's New Holland; Transposing the West: Jefferson and Ledyard; 3 . Early National Orbits: Geography, Astronomy, and the Cycles of the Earth; Freneau, Alsop, and Neoclassical Style; Joel Barlow: The Columbiad; Charles Brockden Brown: Systems of General Geography
- 4 . Aurora Australis: Antebellum Seascapes and the Southern CrossThe Hidden Antipodes: Irving's "Globular" Narratives; The Southern Sea: Dana and Poe; "Ex Ex" Narratives: Wilkes and Cooper; 5 . Transcendental Burlesque: Reorienting Manifest Destiny; "The Other Side of the Sphere": Melville and Australasia; Rotating the Axis: The Gold Rush Circuit; "The Earth reversed her Hemispheres": Dickinson's Antipodality; 6 . Empire Upside Down: Victorian Globalization and Colonial Equations; Civil War, Imperial Circumference: Lincoln and Trollope
- Family Romance, Domestic Disturbance: Kingsley and SouthworthSpatiotemporal Triangulation: Henry Adams; The Laughing Jackass: Twain's Latitudinal Parallels; 7 . Ancestral Modernisms: Indigeneity and the Articulation of Distance; Irish Aesthetic Nativism: John Boyle O'Reilly; Racialism and Socialism: Jack London; The Primitivist Paradox: Federation's "weird country"; 8 . Transpacific Transgression: Gender Remapping and World Revolutions; The Boundaries of Utopia: Howells, Gilman, Miles Franklin; Lola Ridge and the Appulsive Avant-Garde; "The Twinness of Things": Stead's Surrealist Dialectic
- 9 . Pacific Theaters: The Poetry of Violence, from World War II to VietnamKarl Shapiro's "backward crab"; Louis Simpson: Racial Métissage and Southern Pastoral; The New York Poets: Inversion and Misrepresentation; "America rhymes with Australia": Yusef Komunyakaa; 10 . Antipodean American Postmodernism: Turning the Subject Inside Out; Irish Intertexts: Chandler and Keneally; Contrarian Tendencies: Hazzard, Rushdie, Carey; "Transposabilities": The Posthumanist Spectrum; J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Disorientation; Conclusion: American Literature's Terra Incognita; Works Cited; Index; A; B
- CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z