The Global Remapping of American Literature

by Paul Giles

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This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691180784

ISBN13:9780691180786

Release Date:June 2018

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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