Sea Changes: British Emigration & American Literature

by Stephen Fender

Book Overview

This acclaimed landmark work - in this substantially revised second edition - is a key study of the American cultural experience. It examines the formation of an American personal and national identity through the experience of emigration. It asks what was the 'American difference', and what constitutes the American character. It explores in detail the crucial influence of emigration from Europe. It explores American readiness to change, to break...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911204866
• ISBN13: 9781911204862
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"