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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... imagine itself politically situated in a differential relation to others. The American Appetite for British Books To gather a clear sense of the degree to which transplanted Englishmen and women sought to maintain their cultural ties ...
... imagine themselves as part of a community of people much like themselves who would probably never meet or exchange a word of conversation but who could nevertheless imagine others like themselves engaged in reading the same materials ...
... imagine the transfer of such authority from Rome to Charlemagne's Paris and later to various Italian city-states. By the High Renaissance, poets were already making the case that France, England, or one of a number of other European ...
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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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