Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860

by Paul Giles

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Paul Giles traces the paradoxical relations between English and American literature from 1730 through 1860, suggesting how the formation of a literary tradition in each national culture was deeply dependent upon negotiation with its transatlantic counterpart. Using the American Revolution as the fulcrum of his argument, Giles describes how the impulse to go beyond conventions...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812217675

ISBN13:9780812217674

Release Date:May 2001

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.93 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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