Virtual Americas

Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary

Giles, Paul

BookHardcover

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A discussion on the ways in which representations in the US have been deflected from mythic to "virtual" phenomena in literary and cultural works of the modern era.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8223-2954-1

Product TypeBook

BindingHardcover

PublisherDuke University Press

Publishing date15/08/2002

SeriesNew Americanists

Pages352 pages

LanguageEnglish

Weight907 g

Article no.1039537

CatalogsBuchzentrum

Data source no.1155650

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Author

Giles, Paul

Paul Giles is Reader in American Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his books are Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860; and American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics.