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Atlantic Republic - The American Tradition in English Literature (Paperback)
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Atlantic Republic - The American Tradition in English Literature (Paperback)
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Atlantic Republic traces the legacy of the United States both as a
place and as an idea in the work of English writers from 1776 to
the present day. Seeing the disputes of the Reformation as a
precursor to this transatlantic divide, it argues that America has
operated since the Revolution as a focal point for various
traditions of dissent within English culture. By ranging over
writers from Richard Price and Susanna Rowson in the 1790s to
Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie at the turn of the twenty-first
century, the book argues that America haunts the English literary
tradition as a parallel space where ideology and aesthetics are
configured differently. Consequently, it suggests, many of the key
episodes in British history-parliamentary reform in the 1830s, the
imperial designs of the Victorian era, the twentieth-century
conflict with fascism, the advance of globalization since 1980-have
been shaped by implicit dialogues with American cultural models.
Rather than simply reinforcing the benign myth of a 'special
relationship', Paul Giles considers how various English writers
over the past 200 years have engaged with America for various
complicated reasons: its promise of political republicanism (Byron,
Mary Shelley); its emphasis on religious disestablishment (Clough,
Gissing); its prospect of pastoral regeneration (Ruxton, Lawrence);
its vision of scientific futurism (Huxley, Ballard). The book also
analyses the complex cultural relations between Britain and the
United States around the time of the Second World War, suggesting
that writers such as Wodehouse, Isherwood, and Auden understood the
United States and Germany to offer alternative versions of the kind
of technological modernity that appeared equally hostile to
traditional forms of English culture. The book ends with a
consideration of ways in which the canon of English literature
might appear in a different light if seen from a transnational
rather than a familiar national perspective.
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