British Influence on the Birth of American Literature
Author | : Linden Peach |
Publisher | : New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780312103095 |
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Author | : Linden Peach |
Publisher | : New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1982-01-01 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780312103095 |
Author | : Linden Peach |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1982-07-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349167983 |
Author | : Robert Weisbuch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1989-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226891514 |
In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and American literature in the nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and, finally, to transcend the contemporary British influence. Describing the transatlantic "double-cross" of literary influence, Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature distinctly different from English models and the English insistence that any such attempt could only fail. The American response, as he demonstrates, was to make strengths out of national disadvantages by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of the self, and by reinterpreting and ridiculing major British texts in mocking allusions and scornful parodies. Weisbuch approaches a precise characterization of this "double-cross" by focusing on paired sets of English and American texts. Investigations of the causes, motives, and literary results of the struggle alternate with detailed analyses of several test cases. Weisbuch considers Melville's challenge to Dickens, Thoreau's response to Coleridge and Wordsworth, Hawthorne's adaptation of Keats and influence on Eliot, Whitman's competition with Arnold, and Poe's reshaping of Shelley. Adding a new dimension to the exploration of an emerging aesthetic consciousness, Atlantic Double-Cross provides important insights into the creation of the American literary canon.
Author | : Kristina Bross |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108879713 |
For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism. This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary culture. Together, an international team of authors make clear that puritan America cannot be thought of apart from Native America, and that its literature is also grounded in Britain, Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and networks that spanned the globe. Each chapter focuses on a single place, method, idea, or context to read familiar texts anew and to introduce forgotten or neglected voices and writings. A History of American Puritan Literature is a collaborative effort to create not a singular literary history, but a series of interlocked new histories of American puritan literature.
Author | : Christopher Davies |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007-09-26 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780547350288 |
This guide to the language differences between the United States and United Kingdom is “a fascinating collection full of all kinds of surprises” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Taxi rank . . . toad in the hole . . . dustman . . . fancy dress . . . American visitors to London (or viewers of British TV shows) might be confused by these terms. But most Britons would be equally puzzled by words like caboose, bleachers, and busboy. In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the customs, manners, and practical details of daily life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and American readers will enjoy his account of American culture as seen through an Englishman’s eyes. Davies tops it off with an amusing list of expressions that sound innocent enough in one country but make quite the opposite impression in the other. Two large glossaries help travelers translate from one variety of English to the other, and additional lists explain the distinctive words of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. This delightful book is the ideal companion for travelers—or anyone who enjoys the many nuances of language.
Author | : Eva March Tappan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Peterfield Trent |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1107554209 |
Originally published in 1924, this book presents a historical guide to American literature, from the colonial era through to the late nineteenth century. The text is broad in scope, incorporating studies of philosophical, historical and political writers, alongside detailed accounts of key literary figures such as Poe and Whitman. A comprehensive bibliography is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in literary criticism and the history of American literature.
Author | : William Peterfield Trent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Peterfield Trent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |