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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145804603321

Titolo

Special relationships : Anglo-American antagonisms and affinities, 1854-1936 / / edited by Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2002

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018]

©2002

ISBN

9781526137654

1526137658

9781847790125

1847790127

9781417569328

1417569328

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BeerJanet <1956->

BennettBridget

Disciplina

810.9004

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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.