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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... political independence was British. Nor can we assume that a drive for cultural autonomy must have accompanied political independence. Such a view regards American literature as a coherent body of writing whose colonial-era production ...
... political autonomy, should in his view be read as British since it is of a piece with other British writings.5 To my way of thinking, both views are only half true. During the period leading up to the Revolutionary War, British America ...
... political conditions changed, some immigrants to New England did in fact return home—as happened, most notably, during King Philip's War. In other cases, sermons and writings imagined New England as a haven for the reformers of the ...
... political entity from the nation as a culture, which allows us to focus on the relationship between the two, rather than read them as two aspects of a single entity.22 Indeed, the literature of the crucial period leading up to the ...
... politics and history, belles lettres, and much that was considered useful knowledge. Until the 1790s, imported English novels remained cheaper than editions reprinted in America. Benjamin Franklin learned that lesson the hard way when ...
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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 |