概要
国際的アメリカ文学者、巽孝之の英文著書、第二弾!
地理や国家、時代やジャンルの境界を飛び越え、日米文化双方を照射するグローバルな批評。
ポー、ホーソーン、メルヴィルを中心とした19世紀アメリカ文学研究の集大成!
目次
PREFACE by Samuel Otter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION. Young Americans as Post-Romantics:Kant, Coleridge and Emerson
CHAPTER 1. Literacy, Literality, Literature:The Rise of Cultural Aristocracy in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
CHAPTER 2. Origins of Originality:Poe, Hawthorne, Noguchi
CHAPTER 3. Prescriptions for Rampomania:Poe and Edogawa Rampo
CHAPTER 4. Crossing the Line:from "The Custom-House" through Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 5. "Young America in Literature" Reconsidered:Pierre and Celebrity Culture
CHAPTER 6."With One Flop" of His Tail:or, How Abe Loves Ahab
CHAPTER 7. The Planet of the Frogs:Thoreau, Anderson and Murakami
CONCLUSION
Transcendental Film Noir:Dickinson, Cornell, and Gibson