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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Main Author	Tennenhouse, Leonard
Format	eBook Book
Language	English
Published	Princeton Princeton University Press 2009
Edition	1
Subjects	American American and English American literature American literature > 18th century > English influences American literature > 18th century > History and criticism American literature > 19th century > English influences American literature > 19th century > History and cricitism American poetry Americans Arthur Mervyn Austen Benito Cereno British America British Americans British literature British North America Cambridge University Press Captivity narrative Charles Brockden Brown Charlotte Temple Clarissa Comparative literature Comparative literature > American and English Comparative literature > English and American Cosmopolitanism Criticism David Humphreys (soldier) Edgar Huntly English and American English influences English literature English novel English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh European Exchange of women Exclusion Fiction Genre Gothic fiction Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History Harriet Beecher Stowe Hegemony Henry Knox History and criticism Hugh Henry Brackenridge Imperialism Joel Barlow John Carter Brown Library Language & Literature Lawrence Buell Literacy LITERARY CRITICISM LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Literature Literature, Comparative Mary Rowlandson Masculinity Memoir Mrs Narrative Nathaniel Hawthorne National characteristics, English, in literature Novel Novelist Of Education Oxford University Press Palgrave Macmillan Philip Freneau Poetry Printing Prose Publishing Rhetoric Seduction Sensibility Sentimentalism (literature) Slavery T. H. Breen The Castle of Otranto The House of the Seven Gables The Man of Feeling The Mysteries of Udolpho The Other Hand The Power of Sympathy The Various Translatio studii United States > Emigration and immigration > History University of California Press Writer Writing Gothic fiction Prose Henry Knox Edgar Huntly English literature Hegemony Charlotte Temple Austen American poetry Seduction Narrative Cambridge University Press British literature Benito Cereno Poetry The Man of Feeling Sentimentalism (literature) British North America Literature Mary Rowlandson Of Education Memoir British Americans Americans The Various Publication English novel Newspaper Joel Barlow David Humphreys (soldier) Harriet Beecher Stowe Fiction Slavery Masculinity Charles Brockden Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Imperialism Lawrence Buell Sensibility Literacy Mrs Publishing The House of the Seven Gables Exclusion British America Oxford University Press Arthur Mervyn Rhetoric T. H. Breen Printing John Carter Brown Library Novel Novelist The Mysteries of Udolpho Translatio studii Palgrave Macmillan The Power of Sympathy Criticism Captivity narrative Exchange of women Cosmopolitanism Philip Freneau The Castle of Otranto University of California Press The Other Hand Writing Hugh Henry Brackenridge Genre Writer Clarissa
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The importance of feeling english: American literature and the british diaspora, 1750-1850 -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Diaspora and Empire -- 2. Writing English in America -- 3. The Sentimental Libertine -- 4. The Heart of Masculinity -- 5. The Gothic in Diaspora -- Afterword: From Cosmopolitanism to Hegemony -- Notes -- Index.
Front Matter Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1: DIASPORA AND EMPIRE 2: WRITING ENGLISH IN AMERICA 3: THE SENTIMENTAL LIBERTINE 4: THE HEART OF MASCULINITY 5: THE GOTHIC IN DIASPORA Afterword NOTES INDEX
Chapter Four: The Heart of Masculinity Chapter Three: The Sentimental Libertine Chapter Two: Writing English in America Chapter One: Diaspora and Empire Contents Acknowledgments Title Page, Copyright, Dedication Notes Index Afterword From Cosmopolitanism to Hegemony Chapter Five: The Gothic in Diaspora
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Diaspora and Empire -- Chapter Two: Writing English in America -- Chapter Three: The Sentimental Libertine -- Chapter Four: The Heart of Masculinity -- Chapter Five: The Gothic in Diaspora -- Afterword From Cosmopolitanism to Hegemony -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z
Acknowledgments --
Contents --
1. Diaspora and Empire --
Afterword. From Cosmopolitanism to Hegemony --
4. The Heart of Masculinity --
Frontmatter --
5. The Gothic in Diaspora --
Notes --
Index
3. The Sentimental Libertine --
2. Writing English in America --