The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850Princeton University Press, 2009. 2. 9. - 176페이지 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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... European libertine is a taste in literature that manifests itself in a capacity not only to feel the proper sentiments but also to put them in writing; Worthy wins a wife by means of his skill as a letter writer. We can also see a ...
... culture by thinking of it in terms of a diasporic literature—one aimed at reproducing certain traits of Englishness in a radically non-European environment. Central to my purpose is the separation of the nation 8 CHAPTER ONE.
... Europe and the rest of the world combined, albeit with limited demand on the Continent for books in English. We are unlikely to be surprised that the importation of books from the mother country was the mainstay of bookselling in the ...
... Europe. By invoking this trope, American authors could think of themselves as English even though they were not British ... European candidates was the true heir of Roman imperium.37 In making this point, such British poets as Dryden ...
... Europe's shores to this blest abode” (“Rising Glory,” 239–41). Timothy Dwight chimes in with the claim, “Forc'd from the pleasures of their native soil. . . / To these far-distant climes our fathers came” (America 4).50 In “Columbia ...
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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 |