Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction

by Thomas O. Beebee

In his book Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction, Thomas O. Beebee analyzes fictional texts as a "discursive territoriality" that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging. Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. Beebee analyzes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557534985
• ISBN13: 9781557534989
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"