Transnationalism and American literature : literary translation 1773-1892

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Title:

Author:

Boggs, Colleen Glenney.

ISBN:

9780415770682

9780415999892

9780203940792

Personal Author:

Boggs, Colleen Glenney.

Publication Information:

London : Routledge, 2009.

Physical Description:

xi, 200 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 7

Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature; 7.

General Note:

Originally published: 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: Multilingual transnationalisms: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Forten Grimke -- Transatlantic education : Phillis Wheatley's neoclassicism -- The blanched Atlantic : James Fenimore Cooper's "neutral ground" -- American world literature : Margaret Fuller's particular universality -- Literary exemplarity : Walt Whitman's "specimens" -- Intellectual property : Harriet Beecher Stowe's copyright.

Subject Term:

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.

Multilingualism and literature -- United States.

Literature publishing -- United States -- History.

Nationalism in literature.

Transnationalism.

Translations -- Publishing -- United States.

Translating and interpreting.

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Summary

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.