The importance of feeling english American literature and the british diaspora, 1750-1850

• 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

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...