Title America and the British imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature / Brook Miller

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- The Travel Book: Performing British Culture in America and on the Page -- Commerce, Reunion, and the Anglo-American Public Sphere -- The White Atlantic: Anglo-Saxon Racialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Modernity, Fabulation, and America in Dracula -- Holroyd's Man: Tradition, Fetishization, and the United States in Nostromo -- Americanization and Henry James -- Conclusion Summary In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Brook Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction. Analyzing America, Miller finds, provided an indirect form of self-scrutiny for British writers and readers, who remained safely insulated by the superiority that critiquing American difference invoked Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- American influences. National characteristics, British, in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. British in literature. Literary studies: from c 1900 -. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. British in literature Civilization -- British influences English literature -- American influences International relations Literature National characteristics, American, in literature National characteristics, British, in literature Stereotypen. Bellettrie. Engels. Amerikaans. Fin de siècle. Nationale kenmerken. SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Relations -- United States United States -- Civilization -- British influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001973 America -- In literature Subject America Great Britain United States Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Verenigde Staten. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230114623 0230114628 9780230103764 0230103766 9781349288137 1349288136

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