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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
Main Author: Tennenhouse, Leonard, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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? In The Importance of Feeling English, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using the concept of transatlantic circulation, he shows how some of the first American authors--from poets such as Timothy Dwight and Philip Freneau to n.
Physical Description:1 online resource (170 pages).
ISBN:9781400827923