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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450798803321

Autore

Flynn Christopher <1964-, >

Titolo

Americans in British literature, 1770-1832 : a breed apart / / Christopher Flynn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-26285-1

1-281-23844-9

9786611238445

0-7546-9219-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/35291309033

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - American influences

National characteristics, American, in literature

Travel in literature

Electronic books.

United States Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-152) and index.

Nota di contenuto

English novels on the American Revolution -- English reforms in American settings: utopian schemes and the idea of America -- Savagery and civility: states of nature and the quest for natural man -- A breed apart: the traveler as ethnographer.

Sommario/riassunto

Christopher Flynn's timely book systematically examines for the first time how British writers portrayed America and Americans in the decades immediately following the revolutionary war. In sentimental novels of the 1780's and 1790's, prose and poetry by Wollstonecraft, Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth; and novels and travel accounts by Smollett, Lennox, Frances Trollope, and Basil Hall, Americans are depicted as a breed apart, separated both geographically and temporally from the 'mother country.'