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Atlantic double-cross : American literature and British influence in the age of Emerson
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- Creator
- Robert Weisbuch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 334 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226891491, 0226891496
- OCLC
- ocm13334321
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 297-319.
- 1. The dimensions of influence: The burden of Britain and the American writer -- Melville's "Bartleby" and the dead letter of Charles Dickens -- 2. Writer, nation, culture: A litany of causes -- Whitman's personalism, Arnold's culture -- 3. Ages of national life: Cultural time in England and America -- Thoreau's dawn and the Lake School's night -- 4. Substituting the past: History in the brain, thought in the land -- History, time, and spirit: Whitman against Wordsworth, Carlyle and Emerson against themselves -- 5. Redeeming the real: American actualism -- The actualist hero: Whitman and Wordsworth, Emerson and Carlyle once more -- 6. The aging of America: Ontological insecurity -- Henry James and the Treaty of Gardencourt
Subjects
- American literature -- English influences.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Comparative literature -- American and English.
- Comparative literature -- English and American.
- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.