Shakespeare and the American Nation

ISBN: 9780521035767 出版年：2004 页码：246 Kim C Sturgess Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction Part I. The Paradox: 1. Manifest consumption of Shakespeare 2. America: a proudly anti-English 'idea' Part II. The Appropriation: 3. Beginning the appropriation of Shakespeare and the 'First American Edition' of his works 4. Jacksonian energy - Shakespearean imagery 5. Context for appropriation in nineteenth-century America 6. The American heroic and ownership of Shakespeare 7. Shakespeare as a fulcrum for American literature 8. The American Scholar and the authorship controversy 9. Last scenes in the final act of appropriation Epilogue Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography Index.