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The importance of feeling English : American literature and the British diaspora, 1750-1850 /

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 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tennenhouse, Leonard, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Diaspora and empire
  • Writing English in America
  • The sentimental libertine
  • The heart of masculinity
  • The Gothic in diaspora.