Umfang:
1 online resource (279 pages)
ISBN:
9781847790125
Inhalt:
Opening up readings of writers in the growing field of transatlanticism, this text discusses diverse and innovative interventions in the field of Anglo-American literary relations, revealing previously unresearched connections between writers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett -- 1 Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott's shoulders? Susan Manning -- 2 Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery Judie Newman -- 3 Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard's New England Anne-Marie Ford -- 4 Our Nig: fetters of an American farmgirl R.J. Ellis -- 5 Crossing over: spiritualism and the Atlantic divide Bridget Bennett -- 6 Poet of comrades:Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship Carolyn Masel -- 7 Nation making and fiction making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley -- 8 Beyond the Americana: Henry James reads George Eliot Lindsey Traub -- 9 'If I Were a Man': Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand and the sexual education of girls Janet Beer and Ann Heilmann -- 10 'Embattled tendencies':Wharton,Woolf and the nature of Modernism Katherine Joslin -- 11 Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S. Eliot and Gothic hauntings in Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Barnes's Nightwood Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik -- 12 Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead Kate Fullbrook -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780719058172
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780719058172
Sprache:
Englisch
