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Special relationships : Anglo-American antagonisms and affinities, 1854-1936 / edited by Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Comparative literature--American and English.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--English and American.
- American literature--English influences.
- English literature--American influences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Opening up readings of writers in the growing field of transatlanticism, this text discusses diverse and innovative interventions in the field of Anglo-American literary relations, revealing previously unresearched connections between writers on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Contents:
- Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett; 1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott's shoulders? Susan Manning; 2 Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery Judie Newman; 3 Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard's New England Anne-Marie Ford; 4 Our Nig: fetters of an American farmgirl R.J. Ellis; 5 Crossing over: spiritualism and the Atlantic divide Bridget Bennett; 6 Poet of comrades:Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship Carolyn Masel
- 7 Nation making and fiction making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley8 Beyond the Americana: Henry James reads George Eliot Lindsey Traub; 9 'If I Were a Man': Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand and the sexual education of girls Janet Beer and Ann Heilmann; 10 'Embattled tendencies':Wharton,Woolf and the nature of Modernism Katherine Joslin; 11 Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S. Eliot and Gothic hauntings in Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Barnes's Nightwood Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik
- 12 Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead Kate FullbrookIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9781526137654
- 1526137658
- 9781847790125
- 1847790127
- 9781417569328
- 1417569328
- OCLC:
- 475961802
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