LEADER 04498nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910778222203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15773-6 010 $a9786612157738 010 $a1-4008-2792-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827923 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788439 035 $a(EBL)457929 035 $a(OCoLC)647823194 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177280 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169470 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177280 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210699 035 $a(PQKB)11151165 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36187 035 $a(DE-B1597)446594 035 $a(OCoLC)979581491 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827923 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457929 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312493 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215773 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457929 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788439 100 $a20061122d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe importance of feeling English$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican literature and the British diaspora, 1750-1850 /$fLeonard Tennenhouse 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton ;$aOxford $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (170 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-17127-0 311 $a0-691-09681-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDiaspora and empire -- Writing English in America -- The sentimental libertine -- The heart of masculinity -- The Gothic in diaspora. 330 $aAmerican literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850? In The Importance of Feeling English, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using the concept of transatlantic circulation, he shows how some of the first American authors--from poets such as Timothy Dwight and Philip Freneau to novelists like William Hill Brown and Charles Brockden Brown--applied their newfound perspective to pre-existing British literary models. These American "re-writings" would in turn inspire native British authors such as Jane Austen and Horace Walpole to reconsider their own ideas of subject, household, and nation. The enduring nature of these literary exchanges dramatically recasts early American literature as a literature of diaspora, Tennenhouse argues--and what made the settlers' writings distinctly and indelibly American was precisely their insistence on reproducing Englishness, on making English identity portable and adaptable. Written in an incisive and illuminating style, The Importance of Feeling English reveals the complex roots of American literature, and shows how its transatlantic movement aided and abetted the modernization of Anglophone culture at large. 606 $aAmerican literature$xEnglish influences 606 $aAmerican literature$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xAmerican and English 606 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and American 606 $aNational characteristics, English, in literature 606 $aBellettrie$2gtt 606 $aWisselwerking$2gtt 607 $aVerenigde Staten$2gtt 607 $aEngeland$2gtt 615 0$aAmerican literature$xEnglish influences. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xAmerican and English. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEnglish and American. 615 0$aNational characteristics, English, in literature. 615 17$aBellettrie. 615 17$aWisselwerking. 676 $a810.9 700 $aTennenhouse$b Leonard$f1942-$0296925 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778222203321 996 $aThe importance of feeling English$93839345 997 $aUNINA