{"product_id":"anglo-american-encounters-england-and-the-rise-of-american-literature-paperback-9780521108522","title":"Anglo-American Encounters; England and the Rise of American Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521108522","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnglo-American Encounters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEngland and the Rise of American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study seeks to clarify an extraordinary half-decade in the rise of American literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Lease (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521108522, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 April 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBetween the years 1850 and 1855 there appeared, in rapid succession, five American books now universally recognised as classics: The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Walden and Leaves of Grass. This study seeks to clarify that extraordinary half-decade in the rise of American literature. In successive chapters Professor Lease analyses the British connections of ten American writers, from Washington Irving to Walt Whitman. He considers their struggle for cultural independence through their engagement with, reaction to and gradual acceptance by the established English world of letters. These Anglo-American encounters are a dramatic series of portraits that provide new perspectives for understanding the career, the quest for nationality and the imaginative world of each of these major contributors to the shaping of an American literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Forays: 1. 'Who reads an American book?'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Washington Irving: uneasy ambassador\u003cbr\u003e 3. Homeward Bound: the two voices of Fenimore Cooper\u003cbr\u003e 4. Yankee Invasion: John Neal's campaign\u003cbr\u003e 5. Poe's England and the divided self\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hawthorne and Our Old Home\u003cbr\u003e 7. Crosscurrents: Melville's England and America\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Forays and Friendships: 8. God's ambassador: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Old England\u003cbr\u003e 9. Emerson, Carlyle and 'the two Englands'\u003cbr\u003e 10. A brother's house: Thoreau's resurrection ode\u003cbr\u003e 11. 'Leaves of Grass': England and the outsetting bard.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006425583896,"sku":"9780521108522","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521108522i.jpg?v=1694976201","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/anglo-american-encounters-england-and-the-rise-of-american-literature-paperback-9780521108522","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}