Transatlantic Insurrections : : British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 173-186 / / Paul Giles.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitlePaul Giles traces the paradoxical relations between English and American literature from 1730 through 1860, suggesting how the formation of a literary tradition in each national culture was deeply dependent upon negotiation with its transat...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©2001
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: British-American Literature: Paradoxical Constitutions, Civil Wars
  • Chapter One. The Art of Sinking
  • Chapter Two. Topsy-Turvy Neoclassicism
  • Chapter Three. From Allegory to Exchange
  • Chapter Four. The Culture of Sensibility
  • Chapter Five. "Another World Must Be Unfurled"
  • Chapter Six. Burlesques of Civility
  • Chapter Seven. Perverse Reflections
  • Conclusion: Transatlantic Perspectives
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments