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This book is based on the assumption that the problem of American literatures written in European languages is not the burden of Europe but the fact that they are second or further literatures written in the same language as older ones that happen to be located in Europe. The papers collected here address the following questions: Is it possible for two or more distinct literatures to coexist in the same language? If the distinction is more than merely ideological and convenient, what are the differences, and how did they come about? Is it reasonable to assume that differentiation followed...

This study marks a decisive advance in Longfellow studies. Instead of making do with documenting the poet's literary contacts in a biographical context, as has been the custom in the past, the authors inquire into the uses he made of European works for the English-American literature in the making. Focusing on Longfellow's widely famous poem, Evangeline, and the internationally most ambitious poet's anthology, Tales of a Wayside Inn, they demonstrate that the poet-professor's program and practice of an integrative, transnational American poetry that includes translations adapts...

Die Lesekultur, in die sich amerikanische Schriftsteller des fruhen 19. Jahrhunderts einzuschreiben suchen, ist eine transatlantische. Zu den stutzenden Pfeilern des noch jungen amerikanischen Literaturbetriebs zahlen der Import von Buchern und Zeitschriften und die Orientierung an europaischen Vermarktungsstrategien und Lesegewohnheiten. Grobritannien kommt in diesem Austausch aufgrund der gemeinsamen Sprache und Geschichte eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Im historischen Roman sorgt der national-patriotische Auftrag des Genres fur einen produktiven Konflikt: einer Integration in die...

The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theoretical reflections and actual case studies, the collection proposes a reassessment of current developments at a time when American nations experience the paradoxical simultaneity of both weakened and...