Our Conrad : Constituting American Modernity

Peter Mallios

ISBN 10: 0804757917 / ISBN 13: 9780804757911

Verlag: Stanford University Press Sep 2010, 2010

Beschreibung

Neuware - 'Our Conrad' is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a 'master' literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780804757911

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Our Conrad : Constituting American Modernity
• Verlag: Stanford University Press Sep 2010
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0804757917
• ISBN-13: 9780804757911
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 229B x 152 H x 36 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 152 mm, Tiefe: 36 mm
• Gewicht: 771 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world.

Peter Mallios reveals the historical and political factors that made Conrad's work valuable to a range of prominent figures—including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore and Edith Roosevelt—and explores regional differences in Conrad's reception. He proves that foreign-authored writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that of any native. Arguing that an individual writer's apparent (national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which he gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies less insular and parochial.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Peter Lancelot Mallios is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maryland. He is a co-editor, with Carola Kaplan and Andrea White, of Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives (2005)

Peter Lancelot Mallios is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maryland. He is a co-editor, with Carola Kaplan and Andrea White, of Conrad in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives (2005)