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Atlantic double-cross : American literature and British influence in the age of Emerson / Robert Weisbuch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weisbuch, Robert, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--English influences.
- American literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Comparative literature--American and English.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--English and American.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 334 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and American literature in the nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and, finally, to transcend contemporary British influence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226891496
- OCLC:
- 13334321
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