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Atlantic Double-Cross - American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson (Paperback, New edition)
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Atlantic Double-Cross - American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson (Paperback, New edition)
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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. Weisbuch approaches a precise
characterization of this double-cross by focusing on paired sets of
English and American texts. Investigations of the causes, motives,
and literary results of the struggle alternate with detailed
analyses of several test cases. Weisbuch considers Melville's
challenge to Dickens, Thoreau's response to Coleridge and
Wordsworth, Hawthorne's adaptation of Keats and influence on Eliot,
Whitman's competition with Arnold, and Poe's reshaping of Shelley.
Adding a new dimension to the exploration of an emerging aesthetic
consciousness, Atlantic Double-Cross provides important insights
into the creation of the American literary canon.
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