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Interestingly enough, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze started his career as a historian of philosophy and as a creator of new philosophy with British empiricism. He wrote his very first book on David Hume, British empiricist philosopher in the 18th-century. From then on Deleuze tried to combine British empiricism with French rationalism. He created new territory of the philosophical project by way of Transcendental empiricism. Deleuze was also very fond of Anglo-American literature from which he could abstract many of his key concepts. His important new philosophical concepts are rhizome, desiring machine, deterritorization, body without organs, line of flight, nomadology, becoming, etc. His favorite men of letters were Lewis Carroll, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Malcolm Lowry. Deleuze believed that Anglo-American literature starts from the "middle" (In-between) that could operate, create and transform everything. In the middle Anglo-American Literature transgresses, resists and always moves across the border, that is, deterritorizes anything fixed. Here we meet Deleuze's theory of the middle literature as rhizomatic/nomadic space. Through Deleuze can we reterritorize the Anglo-American literature to empower "literature" in the death of literature and in the crisis of the humanities. This is why we pay due attention to Deleuze's theory of Anglo-American literature.