Atlantic Double-Cross
American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11675126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert D Habich (corresponding author), Robert Weisbuch |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 411-411 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Early Republic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-1275 • E-ISSN: 1553-0620 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3123731 |
| OpenAlex | W1997147016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
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 createa literature distinctly different from English models and the English insistence that any such attempt could only fail. The American response, as he demonstrates, was to make strengths out of national disadvantages by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of the self, and by reinterpreting and ridiculing major British texts in mocking allusions and scornful parodies. Weisbuch approaches a precise characterization of this double-cross by focusing on paired sets of English and American texts. Investigations of the causes, motives, and literary results of the struggle alternate with detailed analyses of several test cases. Weisbuch considers Melville's challenge to Dickens, Thoreau's response to Coleridge and Wordsworth, Hawthorne's adaptation of Keats and influence on Eliot, Whitman's competition with Arnold, and Poe's reshaping of Shelley. Adding a new dimension to the exploration of an emerging aesthetic consciousness, Atlantic Double-Cross provides important insights into the creation of the American literary canon
Economic history · Political science · History · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
The Native American Tradition
Cooper and the idea of the Indian
Natural Science and the Romanticisms
Transamerican Marital Allegories in Alcott's M.L. and Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Toward a New Transatlanticism
That Untravell'd World
Seeing through ‘the veil’ darkly
Victorian Piety Practiced
Redemptive violence and stuttering across the Atlantic
Re-visioning History
Emerson, Embryology, and Culture
Selected Bibliography for the Study of Interculturality in the Americas
| Citations per year | 0.52 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2021 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |