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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... women in North America held onto the idea that they could return to Great Britain. At the very least, they imagined that they were sufficiently English to fit in among their kinsmen back in England. Certainly throughout the seventeenth ...
... woman captive to natives of North America with that of a Christian whose faith is tested in the wilderness. That the traces of what she identified as “English cattle” and an “English path” were equivalent to signs of God's presence ...
... women sought to maintain their cultural ties with the mother country by means of the printed word, we need to look at the history of the book in America. Throughout the more than two hundred years from the colonial period to the early ...
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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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