American Writers in Paris

Ferdâ Asya is professor of English and she has taught at institutions of higher education nationally and internationally. She is the editor of American Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present (2013) and Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction (2021).

• Chapter 1: Introduction-Literary and Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 2: “The most hospitable of cities”: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Paris.- Chapter 3: The American in Paris: Sources, Stereotypes, American Exceptionalism, and Henry James’s The American.- Chapter 4: Finding Herself Elsewhere: Grace King, Madame Blanc, and Le Petit Salon.- Chapter 5: The Chronotope of “the Temporary Autonomous Zone” in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.- Chapter 6: Save Me from the Waltz: Zelda Fitzgerald and the Trauma Cultures of Expatriate Paris.- Chapter 7: Worlds beyond All Fact and Flesh: William Faulkner, Paul Cézanne, and the Phenomenology of Visual Art.- Chapter 8: Reframing Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller’s Black(face) Book.- Chapter 9: William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face: A Novel Buried in Obscurity for Too Long.- Chapter 10: Our Paris: Edmund White’s Sketches of Loss.- Chapter 11: French Chic American Style: Self-governance and the Promise of Social Distinction in Debra Ollivier’s Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl.- Chapter 12: Jake Lamar’s Expatriate Mysteries: Exercising the Ghosts of Transcontinental Paris Noir.- Chapter 13: Switching Tongues beside the Seine: Translingual American Writers in Paris.