American Writers in Europe (PDF)

Ann Beebe, University of Texas at Tyler, USA
Jenny Glennon, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Brasenose College, Oxford University, UK
Malin Lidström Brock, Luleå University, Sweden
Udo Nattermann, University of Indianapolis, USA
Diederik Oostdijk, American Literature at VU University, the Netherlands
Windy Counsell Petrie, Colorado Christian University, USA
Marilyn Schwinn Smith, Five Colleges, Inc., USA
Richard Swope, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Robin Vogelzang, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

"Professor Asya's interesting essay collection begins with American writers abroad in 1850 and comes close to the present time. A wide group of essay writers comments on not only the texts of works by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Gertrude Atherton, John Cournos, and Edith Wharton as well as poems by Ginsberg, Rich, Rukeyser, Rolfe, Ashbery and others; they also discuss the impetus for travel, the comfort levels of expatriates, and the quality of writing produced. This book provides a useful starting point for further discussions." - Linda Wagner-Martin, Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA, and author of Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987), 'Favored Strangers': Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life (2004)

"An exciting volume of essays, with transnational perspectives that add to the fields of global studies and American studies. Contributors stress the significance of the expatriate experience in the evolution of American and European cultures as well as in the careers of writers from 1850 to the present. Edith Wharton emerges as a major force in transatlantic literature, helping to define through her expatriate vision a critical independence shared by diverse Americans writing from abroad." - Carol J. Singley, Professor of English, Rutgers University-Camden, USA, and author of Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit and Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

"This fascinating collection of essays on American writers in Europe makes a significant contribution to our understanding of what drew writers as diverse as Langston Hughes, John Cournos, Gertrude Atherton, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Diane Johnson and countless others to 'the old world.' The editor, Ferdâ Asya, and the international group of scholars who contributed to the volume are to be commended for their freshness of approach, and for their selection of