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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... readership. As Michael Warner observes, “Virtually every colonial writer looks both homeward to the seat of imperial culture and outward to the localities that would remain for them subordinate.”15 The other side of the same cultural ...
... readership in any given urban area—all made it easier for booksellers to rely on imported material. Throughout the eighteenth century, as domestic book production grew, American printers devoted their presses to almanacs, sermons (in ...
... readership imagined itself as a nation of English readers. This comes close to what Raymond Williams means by “hegemony,” a culture's capacity to dominate—and remain “the culture”—without imposing its rule everywhere and at all times.35 ...
... readership of the 1770s might well have enjoyed the idea that America was sure to become the new locus of art and learning. So much for the obvious and on to the historical details I consider more interesting. Berkeley insisted that his ...
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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 |