The Importance of Feeling English —— American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850

----- 感受英国的重要性：1750-1850年美国文学与英国散居犹太人

ISBN: 9780691171272 出版年：2009 页码：170 Tennenhouse, Leonard Princeton University Press

American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of america's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by english literature, which was a major american import between 1750 and 1850? in the importance of feeling english, leonard tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early american literature and radically revises its features. Using the concept of transatlantic circulation, he shows how some of the first american authors--from poets such as timothy dwight and philip freneau to novelists like william hill brown and charles brockden brown--applied their newfound perspective to pre-existing british literary models. These american "re-writings" would in turn inspire native british authors such as jane austen and horace walpole to reconsider their own ideas of subject, household, and nation.