Title America's England : antebellum literature and Atlantic sectionalism / Christopher Hanlon

Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages) : illustrations Series Oxford studies in American literary history Oxford studies in American literary history. Contents Transatlantic bloodlines and English traits -- Feeling free in medieval America -- Picturing America -- John Pendleton Kennedy's Plantation of the picturesque -- Embodied eloquence, the Sumner assault, and the Transatlantic Cable -- Henry Timrod's Global confederacy -- Coda Summary This text examines the manoeuvres through which US partisans encoded the turmoil of antebellum America in terms of English affiliation. Demonstrating that English genealogies, geographies, and economics encoded the sectional crisis for southern and northern Americans, it locates sectionalism in a broader Atlantic context of cultural imagination and literary production Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- English influences. American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature American literature -- English influences Civilization -- British influences Intellectual life International relations English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- British influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001973 English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 19th century United States -- Relations -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Relations -- United States Subject English-speaking countries Great Britain United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0199333106 9780199333103 9780199937592 0199937591

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