The importance of feeling English : American literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850 / Leonard Tennenhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tennenhouse, Leonard, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--18th century--English influences.

American literature.

American literature--19th century--English influences.

American literature--18th century--History and criticism.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Comparative literature--American and English.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--English and American.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Great Britain--Colonies.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 158 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]

Summary:

"This book challenges the very notion of 'American Literature'--what it is and how we date it--by daring not to assume 'that different national governments mean different national literatures.' It does so from a transatlantic perspective that, in Tennenhouse's hands, achieves a new maturity and power. In reconceiving American literature, "The Importance of Feeling English" also points the way to a new understanding of British literary history."--Clifford Siskin, New York University

"This book advances a bold and compelling new paradigm for understanding early American literature. Tennenhouse unsettles the long-standing premise that literature and culture are best understood within the framework of the nation; in so doing, he offers a fundamentally novel and revealing new account of early American literature."--Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Yale University

Contents:

Diaspora and empire

Writing English in America

The sentimental libertine

The heart of masculinity

The Gothic in diaspora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691096810

0691096813

OCLC:

154694668