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Author Clark, Jennifer, 1958-

Title The American idea of England, 1776-1840 : transatlantic writing / by Jennifer Clark
Published Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013

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 MELB  816.203241 C5934/A  AVAILABLE
Description 232 pages cm
Series Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.
Contents "The Britainism of our great men!": anglophilia, political writing and the political context of American writing -- The history of John Bull: allegorical writing, 1774-1835 -- The war of 1812: the idea of England and American nationalism -- The paper war: Anglo-American recrimination and retaliation -- Far hills look green: travel writing -- "fair, But different": England and the English in the American literary imagination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject American prose literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- United States -- History.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
LC no. 2013000831
ISBN 9781409430506 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1409430502 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781472405630 (epub)