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Transatlantic Insurrections : British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 173-186 / Paul Giles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812217674
  • 9780812200690
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9 21
LOC classification:
  • PS159.G8 G5 2001eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: British-American Literature: Paradoxical Constitutions, Civil Wars -- Chapter One. The Art of Sinking -- Chapter Two. Topsy-Turvy Neoclassicism -- Chapter Three. From Allegory to Exchange -- Chapter Four. The Culture of Sensibility -- Chapter Five. "Another World Must Be Unfurled" -- Chapter Six. Burlesques of Civility -- Chapter Seven. Perverse Reflections -- Conclusion: Transatlantic Perspectives -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitlePaul Giles traces the paradoxical relations between English and American literature from 1730 through 1860, suggesting how the formation of a literary tradition in each national culture was deeply dependent upon negotiation with its transatlantic counterpart. Using the American Revolution as the fulcrum of his argument, Giles describes how the impulse to go beyond conventions of British culture was crucial in the establishment of a distinct identity for American literature. Similarly, he explains the consolidation of British cultural identity partly as a response to the need to suppress the memory and consequences of defeat in the American revolutionary wars.Giles ranges over neglected American writers such as Mather Byles and the Connecticut Wits as well as better-known figures like Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, and Hawthorne. He reads their texts alongside those of British authors such as Pope, Richardson, Equiano, Austen, and Trollope. Taking issue with more established utopian narratives of American literature, Transatlantic Insurrections analyzes how elements of blasphemous, burlesque humor entered into the making of the subject.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: British-American Literature: Paradoxical Constitutions, Civil Wars -- Chapter One. The Art of Sinking -- Chapter Two. Topsy-Turvy Neoclassicism -- Chapter Three. From Allegory to Exchange -- Chapter Four. The Culture of Sensibility -- Chapter Five. "Another World Must Be Unfurled" -- Chapter Six. Burlesques of Civility -- Chapter Seven. Perverse Reflections -- Conclusion: Transatlantic Perspectives -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitlePaul Giles traces the paradoxical relations between English and American literature from 1730 through 1860, suggesting how the formation of a literary tradition in each national culture was deeply dependent upon negotiation with its transatlantic counterpart. Using the American Revolution as the fulcrum of his argument, Giles describes how the impulse to go beyond conventions of British culture was crucial in the establishment of a distinct identity for American literature. Similarly, he explains the consolidation of British cultural identity partly as a response to the need to suppress the memory and consequences of defeat in the American revolutionary wars.Giles ranges over neglected American writers such as Mather Byles and the Connecticut Wits as well as better-known figures like Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, and Hawthorne. He reads their texts alongside those of British authors such as Pope, Richardson, Equiano, Austen, and Trollope. Taking issue with more established utopian narratives of American literature, Transatlantic Insurrections analyzes how elements of blasphemous, burlesque humor entered into the making of the subject.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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