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Record Nr.

UNISA996213399503316

Autore

Brennan Maeve

Titolo

Special relationships [[electronic resource] ] : Anglo-American affinities and antagonisms 1854-1936

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-5261-3765-8

1-84779-012-7

1-4175-6932-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/004

820.9008

Soggetti

American literature

American literature - History and criticism

English literature

Literature, Comparative

American literature - History and criticism - 19th century

English literature - History and criticism - 20th century

English literature - History and criticism

Comparative literature - American and English

Comparative literature - English and American

American literature - English influences

English literature - American influences

English Literature

American Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

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.