Table of Contents

Introduction: Reformation, Disestablishment, Transnationalism
1: The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of Schism
2: Transatlantic Romanticism and Parliamentary Reform
3: The First Cold War: Anglo-American Literature and the Oregon Question
4: Arthur Hugh Clough and the Poetics of Dissent
5: Aestheticism, Americanization, and Empire
6: Great Traditions: Modernism, Canonization, Counter-Reformation
7: The Fascist Imaginary: Abstraction, Violence, and the Second World War
8: Post-War Poetry and the Purifications of Exile
9: Postmodernist Fiction and the Inversion of History
10: Global English and the Politics of Traversal
Conclusion: The Transnationalization of English Literature

About the Author

Born in London in 1957, Paul Giles was educated at Oxford University and has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, and Staffordshire as well as at Portland State University in Oregon. He is currently Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University and President of the International American Studies Association.

Reviews

American Republic is a great book, and as the finale of his trilogy on the subject of British and American interrelations over the last 230 years, it is even greater and fully satisfying critical climax. Daniel T. O'Hara, Modern Language Quarterly Giles's book is trenchant, unsettling and timely Peter Conrad, The Observer