Transatlantic Romanticism
Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1855
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-333-91506-6 (ISBN)
Description
Richard Gravil explores the relationship between works of the "American Renaissance", and in particular the works of the Transcendentalists, and British Romanticism, emphasizing the significant contributions of American literature and the idea of the American nation to the British writers. He focuses on the intertextuality of Fenimore Cooper, Edmund Burke, Wordsworth, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Keats, Coleridge, Melville, and Dickinson.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-91506-6 (9780333915066)
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Person
RICHARD GRAVIL is a Reader in literature at the University College of St. Mark and St. John and co-editor of the journal Symbiosis.
Content
PART I: REVOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE, 1779-1837 - The Anglo-American Revolution - Romantic Americas - Alien Consanguinities: Models of In(ter)dependence - PART II: ANGLO-AMERICAN ROMANTICISM, 1823-1862 - Fenimore Cooper and the Specter of Edmund Burke - Nature and Walden: Redeeming the Promise of England - Imagination Transcendentalized: Keats and Coleridge in America - The Whale and the Albatross: Moby-Dick and Romantic Nature - The Discharged Soldier and the Runaway Slave - Emily Dickinson's Imaginary Conversations - Appendix: Colonel Gardiner's Campaign