Mobility,Inheritance and Revolution:Reshaping Transatlantic Relations in Literary Criticism
The study of transatlantic literature has gone through various stages,from focusing on the contradictions,conflicts,and integration of British and American literature,to focusing on the multiple influences of British literature on North and South American literature,and then to studying the interactive processes of European and American(continental)and non American(conti-nental)literature under different themes such as politics,national and ethnic identity,commercial printing,and ecological environ-ment,which contain rich fluidity.At present,research on transatlantic literature focuses on novels as a literary genre,and the posi-tion of transatlantic poetry in this context is somewhat awkward.Meanwhile,literature seems to always respond to political issues,leading to a significant weakening of its literary nature.The new research on transatlantic literature requires efforts to balance the re-lationship between literature and politics,enrich the literary genres studied,and pay more attention to the transmission,circulation,and contingency of literary experiences.