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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... Language for a Nation: A Transatlantic Problematic,” in W. M. Verhoeven, ed. Transatlantic Revolutions (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 62–84 and is reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. Clifford Siskin, Elizabeth ...
... language, particularly when writers in British America lacked political autonomy, should in his view be read as British since it is of a piece with other British writings.5 To my way of thinking, both views are only half true. During ...
... language culture of British North America waiting to emerge as soon as decolonization began.11 Literature produced under the conditions I am describing requires an explanatory model that acknowledges a perplexed but continuing ...
... language must reproduce it, often in its most authoritative or prestigious forms. Only by reproducing the terms of their own domination, according to the model I am using, can new groups introduce the differences that may, at some point ...
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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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