Anglo-American Encounters: England and the Rise of American Literature - Couverture rigide

Lease, Benjamin

 
9780521236669: Anglo-American Encounters: England and the Rise of American Literature
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ISBN 10 : 0521236665 ISBN 13 : 9780521236669
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1982

Synopsis

Between the years 1850 and 1855 there appeared, in rapid succession, five American books now universally recognised as classics: The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Walden and Leaves of Grass. This study seeks to clarify that extraordinary half-decade in the rise of American literature. In successive chapters Professor Lease analyses the British connections of ten American writers, from Washington Irving to Walt Whitman. He considers their struggle for cultural independence through their engagement with, reaction to and gradual acceptance by the established English world of letters. These Anglo-American encounters are a dramatic series of portraits that provide new perspectives for understanding the career, the quest for nationality and the imaginative world of each of these major contributors to the shaping of an American literature.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Between the years 1850 and 1855 there appeared, in rapid succession, five American books now universally recognised as classics: The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Walden and Leaves of Grass. This study seeks to clarify that extraordinary half-decade in the rise of American literature. In successive chapters Professor Lease analyses the British connections of ten American writers, from Washington Irving to Walt Whitman. He considers their struggle for cultural independence through their engagement with, reaction to and gradual acceptance by the established English world of letters. These Anglo-American encounters are a dramatic series of portraits that provide new perspectives for understanding the career, the quest for nationality and the imaginative world of each of these major contributors to the shaping of an American literature.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1982
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521236665
ISBN 13 
9780521236669
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
315
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Personne responsable
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9780521108522: Anglo-American Encounters: England and the Rise of American Literature

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ISBN 10 :  0521108527 ISBN 13 :  9780521108522
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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