Transatlantic Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century : Anglo-American Relations and Intertwined Identities / Howard LeRoy Malchow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malchow, Howard LeRoy, author.

Series:

New Approaches to International History.

New Approaches to International History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Foreign relations--19th century.

Great Britain.

United States--Foreign relations--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Ranging through the long nineteenth century, this book explores the evolving cultural relationship between Britain and the United States during this period. From language, speech and racial attitudes to imaginings of the Western frontier, travel memoirs, the role of theatre and Anglophilia and Anglophobia, it shows how actors on both sides of the Atlantic expressed understanding of themselves and their not-so-foreign Other. Tracing the ways in which these cultural activities served to imagine, shape, confirm and maintain cultural topographies, it shows how they constructed Anglo-American differences which endure today. It challenges narratives of fixed national identity by emphasising cultural borrowing, hybridity and shifting perspectives in an era of faster, easier transatlantic and American continental travel, and promotes an understanding of how these identities were both entrenched and challenged.

Contents:

Introduction: The Transatlantic World 1. Divided by a Common Language 2. Theatre/Theater 3. Tableaux of Race 4. The Far West: Imagining, Seeing, Performing 5. Transatlantic Birthright: Anglophilia and Anglophobia Epilogue

ISBN:

1-350-57285-3

1-350-56265-3

9781350562653

OCLC:

1552792381