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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... , did me the great service of reading portions of the manuscript. Perhaps my most important insights—the fact that there is a distinctively American Clarissa, for example—came to me while reading in the collections of. Acknowledgments.
... fact that they no longer lived there. Even though, and perhaps because, they had to do so under conditions that differed sharply from those that fostered literature back in England, from captivity narratives through the earliest ...
... fact return home—as happened, most notably, during King Philip's War. In other cases, sermons and writings imagined New England as a haven for the reformers of the church who would return to England either in person or as an example to ...
... fact displaced that origin. This centripetal force is generated by the production of a generic homeland and results in a new sense of collectivity. In The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy develops a model along precisely these lines to ...
... fact two tropes in one. Developed by Roman poets to account for the transfer of imperial power from Athens to Rome, and imitated by poets over time as learning migrated from Rome to later imperial centers, the first trope under ...
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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