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02309aam a2200397 a 4500 001 3941ACE4517511E0A5987EABC41A358D 003 SILO 005 20110318103249 008 100324s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010012672 020 $a 0230103766 (hardback) 020 $a 9780230103764 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)548583322 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR129.A4 $b M55 2010 082 00 $a 820.9/35873 $2 22 100 1 $a Miller, Brook. 245 1 $a America and the British imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature / $c Brook Miller. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2010. 300 $a x, 246 p. : $b ill. ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "Cultivating Allegiance argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for promoting the improving effects of culture, particularly literature. Analyzing America provided an indirect form of self-scrutiny for British writers and readers, safely insulated by the superiority invoked by critiquing American difference. Operating within a reflexive transatlantic print culture, writers crafted cultivated personae as markers of an ideal Britishness. In so doing, they deployed a variety of images of the United States as counterparts to their visions of these ideals. Thus, British representations of America provide an important linkage between nineteenth and twentieth century visions of British culture and national identity"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a English literature $x American influences. 650 0 $a National characteristics, British, in literature. 650 0 $a National characteristics, American, in literature. 651 0 $a United States $x Relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Relations $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x British influences. $x British influences. 651 0 $a America $x In literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171221041317.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20110512012338.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3941ACE4517511E0A5987EABC41A358DInitiate Another SILO Locator Search