The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850Princeton University Press, 9 de febr. 2009 - 176 pàgines American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850? |
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... colonial period, he went over every chapter with a keen eye and returned drafts to me with copious notes scribbled in the margins. I owe him special thanks. I have benefited from the collegiality of two graduate students with an ...
... colonial-era production sounded themes that resonated with the writers of the American Renaissance. Hence the continuous search within a field constituted solely by American texts to find “profound continuities between early American ...
... colonial authors generally wanted to write as Englishmen.6 In the face of the French threat during the Seven Years War, they indeed felt especially inspired to reaffirm their British identification. Benjamin Franklin confessed to Lord ...
... colonial writer looks both homeward to the seat of imperial culture and outward to the localities that would remain for them subordinate.”15 The other side of the same cultural coin was the colonists' fear of going native in the ...
... colonial America and the literature produced in America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, for example, equates her situation as an English woman captive to natives of North America ...
Continguts
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Writing English in America | 19 |
The Sentimental Libertine | 43 |
The Heart of Masculinity | 73 |
The Gothic in Diaspora | 94 |
Afterword From Cosmopolitanism to Hegemony | 118 |
Notes | 129 |
Index | 153 |
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