Transatlantic literary studies: a reader

Introduction. What is transatlantic literary studies?

Pt. I. The nation and cosmopolitanism

Introduction

1. Copywriting American history : international copyright and the periodization of the nineteenth century / Claudia Stokes

2. The transnational turn : rediscovering American studies in a wider world / Robert A. Gross

3. Nineteenth-century United States literary culture and transnationality / John Carlos Rowe

4. National narratives, postnational narration / Donald E. Pease

5. Transnationalism and classic American literature / Paul Giles

6. The limits of cosmopolitanism and the case for translation

7. Between empires : Frances Calderón de la Barca's 'Life in Mexico' / Amy Kaplan and Nina Gerassi-Navarro

8. Principles of a history of world literature / Pascale Casanova

Pt. II. Theories and practice of comparative literature

Introduction

1. General, comparative, and national literature / René Wellek and Austin Warren

2. Notes towards a comparison between European and American romanticism / Tony Tanner

3. English romanticism, American romanticism : what's the difference? / J. Hillis Miller

4. Cultural time in England and America / Robert Weisbuch

5. Nature and 'Walden' / Richard Gravil

6. On beginning to tell a "best-kept secret" / Margaret McFadden

7. Network analysis : a reappraisal / Jeremy Boissevain

Pt. III. Imperialism and the postcolonial

Introduction

1. Prospero and Caliban / Peter Hulme

2. Cultural identity and diaspora / Stuart Hall

3. The Black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity / Paul Gilroy

4. American literary emergence as a postcolonial phenomenon / Lawrence Buell

5. European pedigrees/African contagions : nationality, narrative, and community in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed / James Snead

6. Deep time : American literature and world history / Wai Chee Dimock

Pt. IV. Translation

Introduction

1. The task of the translator / Walter Benjamin

2. On linguistic aspects of translation / Roman Jakobson

3. The hermeneutic motion / George Steiner

4. The tropics of translation / Douglas Robinson

5. Gender and the metaphorics of translation / Lori Chamberlain

6. Jack Spicer's 'After Lorca' : translation as decomposition / Daniel Katz

7. The French Caribbeanization of Phillis Wheatley : a poetics of anticolonialism / Anna Brickhouse

Pt. V. Style and genre

Introduction

1. Eloquence and translation / Eric Cheyfitz

2. Introduction : rhizome / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

3. Traveling genres / Margaret Cohen

4. Introduction : history, memory, and performance / Joseph Roach

5. Romance and rational orthodoxy / Michael Davitt Bell

6. The failure of genre criticism / Nicolaus Mills

7. Empire and occasional conformity : David Fordyce's 'Complete British letter-writer' / Eve Tavor Bannet

8. The Americanization of Clarissa / Leonard Tennenhouse

Pt. VI. Travel

Introduction

1. Reflections on exile / Edward Said

2. Ethno-graphy : speech, or the space of the other : Jean de Léry / Michel de Certeau

3. Introduction to 'Sea changes' / Stephen Fender

4. The rewards of travel / William Stowe

5. Introduction to 'Imperial eyes,' and Humboldt as transculturator / Mary Louise Pratt

6. Travel writing and its theory / Mary Baine Campbell.