| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xxviii, 318 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Based on the Clark lectures given by the author at Cambridge University in 1965. |
| Contents |
[1.] Immense advantage: American thoughts and English thoughts -- American ambivalence -- Thinking American through being American -- Subjective America, objective Europe -- [2.] Specter of Americanization: Americanizing -- European attitudes -- Past and nowness -- American solutions -- American materialism, European materialism -- Americanization as Europeanization -- [3.] Henry James as center of the English-American language: Critic as center of his own fiction -- Refusal to be provincial -- Aims of fiction -- Sexual subject -- Choice of London -- America, 1904 -- Baudelaire and Whitman -- American womanhood and English language -- Expatriate visitor -- A less refined Henry -- American redemption -- [4.] Ebb tide in England: Georgians -- American visitors -- Persona of bridges -- Frost and Edward Thomas -- English poets and the war -- Divergence of the Twain -- [5.] English threnody, American tragedy: Novelists of poetry and saturation -- Elegies for England: E.M. Forster -- Lawrentian love-hate for England -- Long-term and short-term England -- Post-mortem effects -- American self-involvement -- American advantage. |
| Subject |
Comparative literature -- American and English.
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Comparative literature -- American and English. |
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Comparative literature -- English and American.
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Comparative literature -- English and American. |
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Littérature comparée -- Américaine et anglaise. |
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Littérature comparée -- Anglaise et américaine. |
| ISBN |
0394490622 |
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9780394490625 |
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