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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... trope, American authors could think of themselves as English even though they were not British. “The Rising Glory” could perform this legerdemain because it was in fact two tropes in one. Developed by Roman poets to account for the ...
... trope of the “rising glory” for their own purposes, from the 1770s they detached the poem from Berkeley's proposal and published it separately. Once the poem could be read independently, I am suggesting, it began to enjoy wide ...
... trope of American literature, “The Rising Glory” had to be significantly revised. In reproducing the trope, American writers sought to reverse the priorities that Berkeley established by subordinating learning to the goals of empire ...
... tropes was soon played out by so many hands in so many different texts that it became rather commonplace and was likely ... trope of the rising glory does not suggest that the new site where learning flourishes has moved farther from its ...
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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 |