Table of Contents:
  • Contents; List of Illustrations; 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. Postwar Poetry and the Purifications of Exile.
  • 9. Postmodernist Fiction and the Inversion of History10. Global English and the Politics of Traversal; Conclusion: The Transnationalization of English Literature; Works Cited; Index.