In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction.



Autorentext
BROOK MILLER Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction The Travel Book: Performing British Culture in America and on the Page Commerce, Reunion, and the Anglo-American Public Sphere The White Atlantic: Anglo-Saxon Racialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Modernity, Fabulation, and America in Dracula Holroyd's Man: Tradition, Fetishization, and the United States in Nostromo Americanization and Henry James Conclusion
Titel
America and the British Imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature
EAN
9780230114623
ISBN
978-0-230-11462-3
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
22.11.2010
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.39 MB
Anzahl Seiten
246
Jahr
2010
Untertitel
Englisch