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Index
Cover
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Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Deterritorialization of American Literature
Part One: Temporal Latitudes
1 Augustan American Literature: An Aesthetics of Extravagance
Restoration Legacies: Cook and Byrd
The Plantation Epic: Magnalia Christi Americana
New World Topographies: Wheatley, Dwight, Alsop
2 Medieval American Literature: Antebellum Narratives and the “Map of the Infinite”
Emerson, Longfellow, and the Longue Duree
“Medieval” Mound Builders and the Archaeological Imagination
Hawthorne, Melville, and the Question of Genealogy
Part Two: The Boundaries of the Nation
3 The Arcs of Modernism: Geography as Allegory
Postbellum Cartographies: William Dean Howells
Ethnic Palimpsests, National Standards
“Description without Place”: Stevens, Stein, and Modernist Geographies
4 Suburb, Network, Homeland: National Space and the Rhetoric of Broadcasting
“Voice of America”: Roth, Morrison, DeLillo
Lost in Space: John Updike
The MTV Generation: Wallace and Eggers
Part Three: Spatial Longitudes
5 Hemispheric Parallax: South America and the American South
Rotating Perspectives: Bartram, Simms, Marti
Regionalism and Pseudo-geography: Hurston and Bishop
Mississippi Vulgate: Faulkner and Barthelme
6 Metaregionalism: The Global Pacific Northwest
Reversible Coordinates: The Epistemology of Space
Orient and Orientation: Snyder, Le Guin, Brautigan
Virtual Canadas: Gibson and Coupland
Conclusion: American Literature and the Question of Circumference
Works Cited
Index
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