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America in the British Imagination (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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America in the British Imagination (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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No other region of the world has exerted such a fascination for the
British, and for such a long time, as the United States of America.
From the first explorations and settlements in the seventeenth
century, through the heyday of the first British empire in the
Americas in the eighteenth century and the fundamental
re-conceptualisation of America following independence, to the
present day American global hegemony a vast variety of Britons have
looked across the Atlantic and pondered on American life, culture,
politics and attitudes. In this volume a number of scholars from a
variety of different disciplines (History, English, Theatre
Studies, Music and History of Art) explore the ways in which
Britons have imagined America. They show how some visited America
themselves, while others relied on second-hand reports, but all
engaged with America on various levels, often imagining and
re-imagining it through different time-periods. The `reality' of
American life, or of American politics was one issue, as were other
factors including American identity, culture, music and theatre,
all of which were filtered through a shifting gaze ranging from
admiration to outright hostility Included are essays on the printed
representations of early Virginia, the view of British consuls
living in the slave South, the interpretations of diverse writers
such as Dickens, Auden, Orwell and Amis, and on the lyrics and
other public pronouncements of the band Radiohead. The time frame
runs from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and should
enable the reader the see how British perceptions and
understandings of America have evolved over those 400 years.
Ultimately, the complexity and ambiguity of British imaginings of
America emerges as the central theme of the book.
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