Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson

by Robert Weisbuch

Book Overview

In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and American literature in the nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and, finally, to transcend the contemporary British influence.

Describing the transatlantic "double-cross" of literary influence, Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature distinctly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226891518
• ISBN13: 9780226891514
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"