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Sea Changes
- British Emigration & American Literature
Engelsk Paperback
Sea Changes
- British Emigration & American Literature
Engelsk Paperback

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This acclaimed landmark work – in this substantially revised second edition – is a key study of the American cultural experience. It examines the formation of an American personal and national identity through the experience of emigration. It asks what was the ‘American difference’, and what constitutes the American character. It explores in detail the crucial influence of emigration from Europe.

It explores American readiness to change, to break with the past, and its faith in future possibilities. Every one of these supposed qualities is traced by Professor Fender to the psychology of emigration.

As a new nation, America had to create and define itself. As the rebellious child of a distant but powerful parent America had to struggle against a metropolitan center with which it shared a language and a legal system, but it strenuously defined itself differently.

This work is about the power of American ideology and how it unlocked the creative potential in the lives and writings for ‘ordinary’ people. It is a work like no other. It says much that is original on writers such as Cooper, Jefferson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Henry James, among others. Professor Fender has also examined many accounts of ordinary people through diaries, letters and contemporary documents.

The book examines how innovations in structures of life, government and writing entailed key cultural themes.  It argues that the rhetoric in which emigration was promoted, defended and attacked became the exhilarations and the anxieties of the American difference. American literature thus returns repeatedly to narratives of captivity, adolescence and initiation as shown in its distinctive literary forms. 

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9781911204862
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
2
ISBN-10:
1911204866
Udg. Dato:
30 jun 2019
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
170mm
Højde:
244mm
Forlag:
Edward Everett Root
Oplagsdato:
30 jun 2019
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