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Weisbuch, Robert Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. University of Chicago Press 1989 0226891518 / 9780226891514 Edition Unstated Trade Paperback Very Good- As issued No Jacket
Spine lean, corner bumnps, small corner creases to front cover, small paperlift to rear cover upper corner, sticker remains on spine, small crescent shaped crease to right edge of front cover, and other light shopwear. In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and American literature in the nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and, finally, to transcend the contemporary British influence. Describing the transatlantic "double-cross" of literary influence, Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature distinctly different from English models and the English insistence that any such attempt could only fail. The American response, as he demonstrates, was to make strengths out of national disadvantages by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of the self, and by reinterpreting and ridiculing major British texts in mocking allusions and scornful parodies.
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