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Titolo |
Special relationships : Anglo-American antagonisms and affinities, 1854-1936 / / edited by Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2002 |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018] |
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©2002 |
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ISBN |
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9781526137654 |
1526137658 |
9781847790125 |
1847790127 |
9781417569328 |
1417569328 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BeerJanet <1956-> |
BennettBridget |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Comparative literature - American and English |
Comparative literature - English and American |
American literature - English influences |
English literature - American influences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett; 1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott's shoulders? Susan Manning; 2 Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery Judie Newman; 3 Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard's New England Anne-Marie Ford; 4 Our Nig: fetters of an American farmgirl R.J. Ellis; 5 Crossing over: spiritualism and the Atlantic divide Bridget Bennett; 6 Poet of comrades:Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship Carolyn Masel |
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7 Nation making and fiction making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley8 Beyond the Americana: Henry James reads George Eliot Lindsey Traub; 9 'If I Were a Man': Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand and the sexual education of girls Janet Beer and Ann Heilmann; 10 'Embattled tendencies':Wharton,Woolf and the nature of Modernism Katherine Joslin; 11 Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S. Eliot and Gothic hauntings in Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Barnes's Nightwood Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik |
12 Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead Kate FullbrookIndex |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Opening up readings of writers in the growing field of transatlanticism, this text discusses diverse and innovative interventions in the field of Anglo-American literary relations, revealing previously unresearched connections between writers on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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