Born in London in 1957, Paul Giles was educated at Oxford University and has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, and Staffordshire as well as at Portland State University in Oregon. He is currently Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University and President of the International American Studies Association.

• Introduction: Reformation, Disestablishment, Transnationalism ; 1. The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of Schism ; 2. Transatlantic Romanticism and Parliamentary Reform ; 3. The First Cold War: Anglo-American Literature and the Oregon Question ; 4. Arthur Hugh Clough and the Poetics of Dissent ; 5. Aestheticism, Americanization, and Empire ; 6. Great Traditions: Modernism, Canonization, Counter-Reformation ; 7. The Fascist Imaginary: Abstraction, Violence, and the Second World War ; 8. Post-War Poetry and the Purifications of Exile ; 9. Postmodernist Fiction and the Inversion of History ; 10. Global English and the Politics of Traversal ; Conclusion: The Transnationalization of English Literature

Giles's book is a magnificent achievement... Elegantly written, stunningly erudite, and bristling with insights, Atlantic Republic is - for literary scholars of all stripes - a force to be reckoned with

Born in London in 1957, Paul Giles was educated at Oxford University and has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, and Staffordshire as well as at Portland State University in Oregon. He is currently Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University and President of the International American Studies Association.

• Introduction: Reformation, Disestablishment, Transnationalism ; 1. The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of Schism ; 2. Transatlantic Romanticism and Parliamentary Reform ; 3. The First Cold War: Anglo-American Literature and the Oregon Question ; 4. Arthur Hugh Clough and the Poetics of Dissent ; 5. Aestheticism, Americanization, and Empire ; 6. Great Traditions: Modernism, Canonization, Counter-Reformation ; 7. The Fascist Imaginary: Abstraction, Violence, and the Second World War ; 8. Post-War Poetry and the Purifications of Exile ; 9. Postmodernist Fiction and the Inversion of History ; 10. Global English and the Politics of Traversal ; Conclusion: The Transnationalization of English Literature

Giles's book is a magnificent achievement... Elegantly written, stunningly erudite, and bristling with insights, Atlantic Republic is - for literary scholars of all stripes - a force to be reckoned with

Born in London in 1957, Paul Giles was educated at Oxford University and has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, and Staffordshire as well as at Portland State University in Oregon. He is currently Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University and President of the International American Studies Association.

• Introduction: Reformation, Disestablishment, Transnationalism ; 1. The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of Schism ; 2. Transatlantic Romanticism and Parliamentary Reform ; 3. The First Cold War: Anglo-American Literature and the Oregon Question ; 4. Arthur Hugh Clough and the Poetics of Dissent ; 5. Aestheticism, Americanization, and Empire ; 6. Great Traditions: Modernism, Canonization, Counter-Reformation ; 7. The Fascist Imaginary: Abstraction, Violence, and the Second World War ; 8. Post-War Poetry and the Purifications of Exile ; 9. Postmodernist Fiction and the Inversion of History ; 10. Global English and the Politics of Traversal ; Conclusion: The Transnationalization of English Literature

Giles's book is a magnificent achievement... Elegantly written, stunningly erudite, and bristling with insights, Atlantic Republic is - for literary scholars of all stripes - a force to be reckoned with