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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... Freneau, Timothy Dwight, and Joel Barlow write as Americans reproducing English literature for and about a new nation—whose culture, they insisted, was no less English for having been transferred to and reproduced in North America. In ...
... Freneau's Rising Glory of America (1771), the version Freneau rewrote after the Revolution, Timothy Dwight's America (1780), David Humphreys “On the Future Glory of America,” (1780), Joel Barlow's “The Prospect of Peace” (1778) and his ...
... Freneau wrote in 1775: Who could have thought that Britons bore a heart, Or British troops to act so base a part? Britons of old renown'd, can they descend T'enslave their brethren in a foreign land?48 On grounds that they were truer to ...
... Freneau reprinted the pair of texts in 1784, and again in 1797 when Robin's text was serialized in Freneau's magazine the Time-Piece. Yes, the historical conditions had certainly changed in favor of its reception, but in order to become ...
... Freneau and Brackenridge contrast the aggression of Native Americans—acting in the name of French imperial authority—to the peaceful toiling of the members of “the hapless colonies”: Yes, while they overturn'd the soil untill'd ...
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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 |