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Book Synopsis“Paris” could be the first word of an epic poem. While there are many cultural pilgrimages in Western Arts (The Alhambra, Venice, Mumbai, Machu Picchu, and others), Paris stands above others, flourishing as an image of possibility and sophistication. The city has a rich history with foreign artists and writers, intellectual and political exiles, military leaders and philosophers from all over the globe. Americans have gone to Paris since the colonial period—and their writing about the city is a captivating corpus of literature. Looking into novels, memoirs, poetry and other writings, Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource examines the role of the French capital in the work of a diverse range of authors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Saul Bellow, Monica Truong, and many others.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction On Distance as a Literary Resource, Jeffrey Herlihy and Vamsi K. Koneru Chapter 1 Emerson in Paris, C.R. Resetarits Chapter 2 Je l’ai dans mon sang!—Paris in Edith Wharton’s Madame de Treymes, Marta Miquel-Baldellou Chapter 3Forget Paris: Sherwood Anderson and the American Expatriate Grotesque, Carl Miller Chapter 4 From Dada to Nada: The Dadaist Influence on Hemingway’s Works Between 1922-1926, Jonathan Austad Chapter 5 The Nightinghouls of Paris: Robert McAlmon’s Queer Paternalism and The Twilight of the Expatriate Movement, Chase Dimock Chapter 6 Miller’s Henry and Henry’s Paris, Katy Masuga Chapter 7Chicago Adventures in Paris: Foreignness and Saul Bellow’s Creative Opposition, Matthew Crowe Chapter 8 The Road to Paris in Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato, Nanette Norris Chapter 9“What Keeps you here?”: Paris, Language, and Exile in The Book of Salt by Monique Truong, Daniela Fargione Epilogue: The Futures of American Paris, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Vamsi K. Koneru Index Notes on Contributors
