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Literary History on the Road: Transatlantic Crossings and Transpacific Crossovers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Takayuki Tatsumi
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Literary history has always mirrored discursive revolutions in world history. In the United States, the Jazz Age would not have seen the Herman Melville revival and the completion of Carl Van Doren's The Cambridge History of American Literature (1917–21) without the rise of post–World War I nativism. If it had not been for Pearl Harbor, F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance (1941) could not have fully aroused the democratic spirit embedded in the heritage of New Criticism. Likewise, the postcolonial and New Americanist climate around 1990, that critical transition at the end of the cold war, brought about the publication of Emory Elliott's The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988) and Sacvan Bercovitch's The Cambridge History of American Literature (1994–). I would like to question, however, the discourse that narrates American literary history in the globalist age of the twenty-first century.

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PMLA , Volume 119 , Issue 1: Special Topic: Literatures at Large , January 2004 , pp. 92 - 102
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2004

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