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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leonard Tennenhouse |
| ISBN: | 9780691096810 0691096813 |
| OCLC Number: | 154694668 |
| Description: | x, 158 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Diaspora and empire -- Writing English in America -- The sentimental libertine -- The heart of masculinity -- The Gothic in diaspora. |
| Responsibility: | Leonard Tennenhouse. |
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Tennenhouse argues persuasively that the severance of political ties between London and the thirteen colonies did not provoke a...division in the cultural sphere. Americans continued to think of themselves as culturally English for a long time. [Tennenhouse] casts this rich and fascinating book [as] a contribution to the study of American literature, but it has much to say about English literature of the period. It deserves to be widely read on both sides of the Atlantic. -- John D. Baird, Times Literary Supplement In revisiting the landscape of early American literature, The Importance of Feeling English radically revises its features. Tennenhouse focuses on the concept of transatlantic circulation and shows how some of the first American authors applied their perspective to existing British literary models. -- Times Higher Education This important book has implications for a far wider account of cultural exchange than Tennenhouse himself focuses on here... The Importance of Feeling English encourages additional consideration about the relationships among diasporic cultures, including Spanish and African, in frontiers far away from the Northeast, which might be more sensitive to spatial and regional differences in an expanding United States. -- Spencer Snow, Common-place [T]here can be no doubt that Tennenhouse is correct in insisting that the American Revolution did not produce a clean break in some Americans' Anglophilia and that he offers an interesting and provocative account of American literary origins that are bound to generate further discussion. -- Ralph Bauer, American Literary History [T]he true genius of this book lies in its careful and elegantly parsed readings of generic shifts and accommodations. -- Susan Scott Parrish, Eighteenth Century Studies The Importance of Feeling English asks important questions not only about the literature of the early United States but also about the pliability of diaspora theory... Tennenhouse's book offers an important rethinking of American literary history that opens new avenues of inquiry and enables us to see the early republic with new eyes. It fundamentally shifts the ground of the conversation in ways that will almost certainly lead to the emergence of new models for thinking about both the movements of peoples through space and time and the specific case of the United States. -- Edward Larkin, Diaspora What is greatly satisfying about The Importance of Feeling English is that it is a book that knows what it wants to do, and does it with uncommon adroitness; it articulates its goals clearly and briskly and then carries out its agenda with dispatch. -- Christopher Looby, Early American Literature [T]he importance of becoming English can scarcely be overestimated, and The Importance of Feeling English gives us a conceptual model for understanding and estimating that importance accurately. -- Christopher Looby, Early American Literature Tennenhouse's book makes an important contribution to expanding the circumference of the subject. -- Paul Giles, Modern Philology Read more...
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