America and the British imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature / Brook Miller.
In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Brook Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction. Analyzing America, Miller finds, provided an indir...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Brook Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction. Analyzing America, Miller finds, provided an indirect form of self-scrutiny for British writers and readers, who remained safely insulated by the superiority that critiquing American difference invoked. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230114623 0230114628 9780230103764 0230103766 9781349288137 1349288136 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |