What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?
This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and temporalities of the transatlantic. Boggs demonstrates that the assumption that American literature has become transnational only recently – that there is such a thing as an "era" of transnationalism – marks a blindness to the intrinsic transatlanticism of American literature.
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The book will be of primary interest to students and researchers of nineteenth-century American studies
This area is taught internationally on undergraduate courses in English and American literature; American history and culture; and American studies.
On any American studies course it would be a core unit; on other courses a widely taken option.
The book makes an important contribution to the new American Studies, especially with regard to the much-needed consideration of the United States as multilingual as well as multicultural in its origins and history
Introduction Mulitlingual Transnationalisms: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Forten Grimke 1. Transatlantic Education: Phyllis Wheatley's Neoclassicism 2. The Blanced Atlantic: James Fenimore Cooper's Neutral Ground 3. American World Literature: Margaret Fuller 4. Literary Exemplarity: Walt Whitman's Specimens 5. Intellectual Property: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Copyright
Introduction Mulitlingual Transnationalisms: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Forten Grimke 1. Transatlantic Education: Phyllis Wheatley's Neoclassicism 2. The Blanced Atlantic: James Fenimore Cooper's Neutral Ground 3. American World Literature: Margaret Fuller 4. Literary Exemplarity: Walt Whitman's Specimens 5. Intellectual Property: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Copyright
Boggs demonstrates that the assumption that American literature has become transnational only recently, marks a blindness to the intrinsic transatlanticism of American literature.
'Colleen Boggs wastes no words; every page provokes reflection and re-pays re-reading...This is critical comparison at its best: compact, challenging and illuminating.´ - Susan Manning, The University of Edinburgh, UK
'A major contribution to the new, postnational American Studies: sophisticated and original.' - Dr. Jess Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
'In this book, Colleen Glenney Boggs makes a startlingly powerful and original case...While other critics consider transnationalism primarily as a spatial or political phenomenon, Glenney Boggs focuses our attention on evidence of linguistic variety in the pages of American works themselves: a significant angle so far overlooked by those who habitually equate national print culture with monolingualism. She persuasively argues that American texts have always been multilingual and that 'the practice of linguistic translation' actually helped rather than hindered American authors in their quest for artistic innovation.' - Leslie Eckel, "The Comparatist"
'A major contribution to the new, postnational American Studies: sophisticated and original.' - Dr. Jess Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
'In this book, Colleen Glenney Boggs makes a startlingly powerful and original case...While other critics consider transnationalism primarily as a spatial or political phenomenon, Glenney Boggs focuses our attention on evidence of linguistic variety in the pages of American works themselves: a significant angle so far overlooked by those who habitually equate national print culture with monolingualism. She persuasively argues that American texts have always been multilingual and that 'the practice of linguistic translation' actually helped rather than hindered American authors in their quest for artistic innovation.' - Leslie Eckel, "The Comparatist"
What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?
This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and temporalities of the transatlantic. Boggs demonstrates that the assumption that American literature has become transnational only recently - that there is such a thing as an "era" of transnationalism - marks a blindness to the intrinsic transatlanticism of American literature.
'A major contribution to the new, postnational American Studies: sophisticated and original.' - Dr. Jess Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
'In this book, Colleen Glenney Boggs makes a startlingly powerful and original case...While other critics consider transnationalism primarily as a spatial or political phenomenon, Glenney Boggs focuses our attention on evidence of linguistic variety in the pages of American works themselves: a significant angle so far overlooked by those who habitually equate national print culture with monolingualism. She persuasively argues that American texts have always been multilingual and that 'the practice of linguistic translation' actually helped rather than hindered American authors in their quest for artistic innovation.' - Leslie Eckel, "The Comparatist"
Colleen G. Boggs is Associate Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, USA.n
Über den Autor
Colleen G. Boggs is Associate Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, USA.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Mulitlingual Transnationalisms: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Forten Grimke 1. Transatlantic Education: Phyllis Wheatley's Neoclassicism 2. The Blanced Atlantic: James Fenimore Cooper's Neutral Ground 3. American World Literature: Margaret Fuller 4. Literary Exemplarity: Walt Whitman's Specimens 5. Intellectual Property: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Copyright
Klappentext
What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?
This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and temporalities of the transatlantic. Boggs demonstrates that the assumption that American literature has become transnational only recently - that there is such a thing as an "era" of transnationalism - marks a blindness to the intrinsic transatlanticism of American literature.
