国際的アメリカ文学者、巽孝之の英文著書、第二弾！

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日米文化双方を照射するグローバルな批評。
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19世紀アメリカ文学研究の集大成！

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Blurbs for Young Americans in Literature:
The Post-Romantic Turn in the Age of Poe,
Hawthorne, and Melville.


Whether comparing the detective fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
and Edogawa Rampo (whose pen name mimics the pronunciation
of his American forebear and muse), or meditating on the role
of frogs in the work of Henry David Thoreau and Haruki Murakami,
Tatsumi’s admirable command of both primary texts and
scholarship on both sides of the Pacific allows him to elucidate
moments of intriguing transnational intertextuality.
This is a wide-ranging, spirited collection by a learned,
astute, and imaginative critic.
ーーーShelley Fisher Fishkin, author of Writing America:
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee.

著者が文学作品と文学研究双方を環太平洋的に扱う手腕は
見事というほかない。国境を超えたインターテクスチュアリティの
魅惑的な瞬間が解き明かされて行く。
ーーシェリー・フィッシャー・フィシュキン
（スタンフォード大学教授、元北米アメリカ学会会長、
The Journal of Transnational American Studies初代編集委員長。
近著にWriting America:
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee）



For over thirty years now, Prof. Takayuki Tatsumi h…
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