Telling America's Story to the World reveals the internationalist tenor of twentieth-century American literature by examining how novelists, essayists, and poets leveraged culture and aesthetics to create cosmopolitan connections. Harilaos Stecopoulos's research is extensive, his argument persuasive, and his writing fluid and lively. In its account of an alternative internationalism, this book is sure to reorient American literature's relation to the world.
Harilaos Stecopoulos is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He earned his doctorate at the University of Virginia and is a renowned scholar in the field of US literature and culture. Stecopoulos's books include: A History of the Literature of the US South (2021), Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and US Imperialisms (2008), and Race and the Subject of Masculinities (1997).