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Author:

Miller, Brook.

Title:

America and the British imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature / Brook Miller.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--American influences.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
United States--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--United States.
United States--British influences.--British influences.
America--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0230103766 (hardback)
9780230103764 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)548583322

LCCN:

2010012672

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)