New release: The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature. Edited by Reingard M. Nischik
18. August 2014
New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2014
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A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of the cutting-edge discipline of Comparative North American Literature. Using both literary and cultural studies to present fundamental research areas that are especially relevant to the United States and Canada, this book reshapes our conceptions of the individual countries and cultures and affirms that the concept of nation is of continuing significance. (publisher)
Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz. Her many books include the prize-winning Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood. In 2009 and 2010, she was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study Konstanz, research project “Comparative North American Studies: Contexts, Approaches, Texts.”