Special relationships : : Anglo-American antagonisms and affinities, 1854-1936 / / edited by Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett.
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.
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| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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