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Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a
privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a
physical object that occupies public and private space. This
collection interrogates the relationships between these differing
aspects of the novel's existence, negotiating the boundaries
between the material world, subjective experience, and strategies
of representation. This collection offers a wide array of
innovative novelistic explorations-with a focus ranging from
nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary literary theory-and
explores the portability of novels as both physical things and
virtual hermeneutic devices. While mimetic qualities of prose
remain an integral consideration for literary interpretation, this
collection argues for more diverse frameworks-ones that see
aesthetic components of the novel in close connection with reading
practices, shared structures of feeling, and the corporeal. In this
capacity, this volume will argue for readings of texts that
consider the capacity for literary culture to move through the
world, but also to make it or re-make it new.
Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was one
of the most influential southern writers, widely considered to
rival his contemporary, William Faulkner who believed Wolfe to be
one of the greatest talents of their generation. His novels
including Look Homeward, Angel (1929);Of Time and the River (1935);
and the posthumously published The Web and the Rock (1939) and You
Can't Go Home Again (1940) remain touchstones of U.S. literature.
In Look Abroad, Angel, Jedidiah Evans uncovers the "global Wolfe,"
reconfiguring Wolfe's supposedly intractable homesickness for the
American South as a form of longing that is instead indeterminate
and expansive. Instead of promoting and reinforcing a narrow and
cloistered formulation of the writer as merely southern or
Appalachian, Evans places Wolfe in transnational contexts,
examining Wolfe's impact and influence throughout Europe. In doing
so, he de-territorializes the response to Wolfe's work, revealing
the writer as a fundamentally global presence within American
literature.
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