[eBook Code] American World Literature: An Introduction (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgments vi

1 The Theory of American World Literature 1

References 25

2 Early American Literature in the World 30

2.1 Contact Zones and Extended Scales 30

2.2 The Classical Counternarrative 41

2.3 The Early American Novel’s Transatlantic Axis 51

2.4 Thomas Paine and Universal Order 63

References 69

3 National/Global: The Framing of Nineteenth‐Century American Literature 75

3.1 National Agendas and Transnational Dialogues 75

3.2 Slavery’s Global Compass 92

3.3 Planetary Space and Intellectual Distance 113

References 119

4 The Worlds of American Modernism 126

4.1 The American Novel and the Great War 126

4.2 The Esthetics of Contradiction 146

4.3 American Studies and World Literature: The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath 156

References 165

5 Postmodernism, Globalization, and US Literary Culture 171

5.1 The Politics of Postmodernism 171

5.2 Styles of Globalization 176

5.3 Disorientation and Reorientation: Kincaid, Morrison,

Kingston 193

References 202

Index 208