A dazzling account of the development of American cultural hegemony from one of the world’s leading literary theorists. Franco Moretti, acclaimed author of
Graphs, Maps, Trees and
Distant Reading, distils a lifetime of teaching and research to present ‘the university, in the form of an essay’. Ranging from poetry and the novel to theatre and the visual arts,
Far Country juxtaposes canonical figures in American art and letters with European counterparts-Whitman and Baudelaire, Hemingway and Joyce, Miller and Brecht, Hopper and Vermeer-charting ruptures in the medium of form that have transformed the cultural landscape on either side of the Atlantic over the past century.
About the author
Franco Moretti is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. He writes regularly for New Left Review and is a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is the author of, among other books, Far Country, The Bourgeois and Graphs, Maps, Trees. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His book Distant Reading won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
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