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Subject(s)

• English literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• English literature—American influences [Browse]
• United States—In literature [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Bibliographic references

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

Source of description

• Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Language note

English

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

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
• 1027194169
• 1406788288
• 1336402538

Doi

10.1093/oso/9780199206339.001.0001

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