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Author Giles, Paul.

Title Atlantic republic : the American tradition in English literature / Paul Giles
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 419 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Reformation, Disestablishment, Transnationalism; 1. The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of Schism; 2. Transatlantic Romanticism and Parliamentary Reform; 3. The First Cold War: Anglo-American Literature and the Oregon Question; 4. Arthur Hugh Clough and the Poetics of Dissent; 5. Aestheticism, Americanization, and Empire; 6. Great Traditions: Modernism, Canonization, Counter-Reformation; 7. The Fascist Imaginary: Abstraction, Violence, and the Second World War; 8. Postwar Poetry and the Purifications of Exile
9. Postmodernist Fiction and the Inversion of History10. Global English and the Politics of Traversal; Conclusion: The Transnationalization of English Literature; Works Cited; Index
Summary Giles describes a tradition of English literary figures since 1776 who have either emigrated to the United States or whose writing has been shaped by American ideas. The writers discussed here include Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, P.G. Wodehouse, and Angela Carter
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-408) and index
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Subject English literature -- History and criticism.
English literature -- American influences.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
English literature -- American influences
Literature
Literatur
Amerikabild
Literaturbeziehungen
Kulturkontakt
Culturele betrekkingen.
Amerikanen.
Engels.
Bellettrie.
Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet.
Engelsk litteratur -- amerikanska influenser.
SUBJECT United States -- In literature
Subject United States
Großbritannien
USA
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Verenigde Staten.
Förenta staterna -- i litteraturen.
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781429459990
1429459999
1282199390
9781282199392
9780191525667
0191525669
1280904364
9781280904363
9786610904365
6610904367