Atlantic Republic

Describes a tradition of English literary figures since 1776 who have either emigrated to the United States or whose writing has been shaped by American ideas. The writers discussed in this book include Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, D H Lawrence, P G Wodehouse, and Angela Carter.

am immensely ambitious book... Atlantic Republic is as much a contribution to the history of Anglo-American cultural relations writ large as it is a highly original entry in the field of literary studies

Autorentext
Born in London in 1957, Paul Giles was educated at Oxford University and has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, and Staffordshire as well as at Portland State University in Oregon. He is currently Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University and President of the International American Studies Association.

Klappentext
This book describes a tradition of English literary figures from 1776 to the present day who have either emigrated to the United States or whose writing has been shaped by American ideas. The writers discussed include Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, P. G. Wodehouse, and Angela Carter.

Inhalt
Introduction: Reformation, Disestablishment, Transnationalism
1: The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of Schism
2: Transatlantic Romanticism and Parliamentary Reform
3: The First Cold War: Anglo-American Literature and the Oregon Question
4: Arthur Hugh Clough and the Poetics of Dissent
5: Aestheticism, Americanization, and Empire
6: Great Traditions: Modernism, Canonization, Counter-Reformation
7: The Fascist Imaginary: Abstraction, Violence, and the Second World War
8: Post-War Poetry and the Purifications of Exile
9: Postmodernist Fiction and the Inversion of History
10: Global English and the Politics of Traversal
Conclusion: The Transnationalization of English Literature

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