Atlantic republic : the American tradition in English literature / Paul Giles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giles, Paul.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--American influences.

United States--In literature.

United States.

Physical Description:

432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Giles describes a tradition of English literary figures since 1776 who have either emigrated to the United States or whose writing has been shaped by American ideas. The writers discussed here include Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, P.G. Wodehouse, and Angela Carter.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Reformation, Disestablishment, Transnationalism; 1. The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of Schism; 2. Transatlantic Romanticism and Parliamentary Reform; 3. The First Cold War: Anglo-American Literature and the Oregon Question; 4. Arthur Hugh Clough and the Poetics of Dissent; 5. Aestheticism, Americanization, and Empire; 6. Great Traditions: Modernism, Canonization, Counter-Reformation; 7. The Fascist Imaginary: Abstraction, Violence, and the Second World War; 8. Postwar Poetry and the Purifications of Exile

9. Postmodernist Fiction and the Inversion of History10. Global English and the Politics of Traversal; Conclusion: The Transnationalization of English Literature; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-408) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-383-03454-0

1-282-19939-0

1-280-90436-4

0-19-152566-9

1-4294-5999-9

9780199567034

0199567034

9780199567034 (pbk.) :

0199567034 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

437092682