The importance of feeling English: American literature and the British diaspora, 1750-1850
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1. Verfasser: Tennenhouse, Leonard (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Diaspora and empire -- Writing English in America -- The sentimental libertine -- The heart of masculinity -- The Gothic in diaspora
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? In The Importance of Feeling English, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using the concept of transatlantic circulation, he shows how some of the first American authors--from poets such as Timothy Dwight and Philip Freneau to n
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ISBN:0691096813
1400827922
9780691096810
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