Love-hate relations : English and American sensibilities / Stephen Spender.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--American and English.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--English and American.

Penn Provenance:

Azzolina, David S. 1957- (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xxviii, 318 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1974]

Contents:

[1.] The immense advantage: American thoughts and English thoughts

The American ambivalence

Thinking American through being American

Subjective America, objective Europe

[2.] The specter of Americanization: Americanizing

European attitudes

Past and nowness

American solutions

American materialism, European materialism

Americanization as Europeanization

[3.] Henry James as center of the English-American language: The critic as center of his own fiction

The refusal to be provincial

The aims of fiction

The sexual subject

The choice of London

America, 1904

Baudelaire and Whitman

American womanhood and English language

The expatriate visitor

A less refined Henry

American redemption

[4.] Ebb tide in England: Georgians

The American visitors

The persona of bridges

Frost and Edward Thomas

English poets and the war

The divergence of the Twain

[5.] English threnody, American tragedy: Novelists of poetry and saturation

Elegies for England: E.M. Forster

Lawrentian love-hate for England

Long-term and short-term England

Post-mortem effects

American self-involvement

The American advantage.

Notes:

Based on the Clark lectures given by the author at Cambridge University in 1965.

Local Notes:

Penn Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by David Azzolina.

Cited in:

Kulkarni. Stephen Spender, A46a

Other Format:

Online version: Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995. Love-hate relations.

ISBN:

0394490622

9780394490625

OCLC:

754525