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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... 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.
... reading in the collections of the John Carter Brown Library and the John Hay Library. Brown also provided me with these truly unique research facilities, staffed with experts to guide me to the most wonderful material. A portion of ...
... readers were more interested in producing and consuming English literature than in creating, to borrow Elaine Showalter's phrase, “a literature of their own.”3 The literary evidence indeed suggests that during this period, most writers ...
... readers. These weeklies “contained much international and intercolonial and local news,” Richard Beale Davis notes, adding, “they were also literary journals, presenting essays formal and familiar and borrowed from each other or from ...
... readers.34 According to Anderson, fiction and newspapers enabled colonial readers to 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 ...
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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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