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Americanizing Britain : the rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire / Genevieve Abravanel.
LIBRA PR129.A4 A27 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abravanel, Genevieve, 1975-
- Series:
- Modernist literature & culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--American influences.
- English literature.
- National characteristics, British, in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 Ameritopias: Transatlantic Fictions of England's Future 24
- 2 Jazzing Britain: The Transatlantic Jazz Invasion and the Remaking of Englishness 53
- 3 The Entertainment Empire: Britain's Hollywood between the Wars 85
- 4 English by Example: F.R. Leavis and the Americanization of Modern England 110
- 5 Make It Old: Inventing Englishness in Four Quartets 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199754458
- 0199754454
- OCLC:
- 747530801
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