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

• Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9004
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: BeerJanet <1956-> BennettBridget
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Special relationships
• ISBN: 1-5261-3765-8; 1-84779-012-7; 1-4175-6932-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145804603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II