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America and the British imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature / Brook Miller.
- Title
- America and the British imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature / Brook Miller.
- Author
- Miller, Brook.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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| Text | Request in advance | PR129.A4 M55 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 246 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Cultivating Allegiance argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for promoting the improving effects of culture, particularly literature. Analyzing America provided an indirect form of self-scrutiny for British writers and readers, safely insulated by the superiority invoked by critiquing American difference. Operating within a reflexive transatlantic print culture, writers crafted cultivated personae as markers of an ideal Britishness. In so doing, they deployed a variety of images of the United States as counterparts to their visions of these ideals. Thus, British representations of America provide an important linkage between nineteenth and twentieth century visions of British culture and national identity"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- English literature > American influences
- National characteristics, British, in literature
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Civilization > British influences
- International relations
- LITERARY CRITICISM > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary studies: from c 1900 -
- Literature
- Literature
- Amerikaans
- Bellettrie
- Engels
- Fin de siècle
- Nationale kenmerken
- Stereotypen
- United States > Relations > Great Britain
- Great Britain > Relations > United States
- United States > British influences
- America > In literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Travel Book: Performing British Culture in America and on the Page -- Commerce, Reunion, and the Anglo-American Public Sphere -- The White Atlantic: Anglo-Saxon Racialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Modernity, Fabulation, and America in Dracula -- Holroyd's Man: Tradition, Fetishization, and the United States in Nostromo -- Americanization and Henry James -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780230103764 (hardback)
- 0230103766 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2010012672
- OCLC
- 548583322
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library