Writing and America (Crosscurrents) - Softcover

Cologne-Brookes, Gavin; Sammells, Neil; Timms, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582214173 ISBN 13: 9780582214170

Verlag: Routledge, 1996

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Crosscurrents is a new series designed to meet the challenge of interdisciplinary developments by drawing upon the discourses of history, politics, race and gender in the study of English studies. Subjects range from those which are well established within the prevailing structure of English Studies to new and unusual areas which have emerged directly out of innovative interdisciplinary work.

Writing in America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a framework for discussions on topics such as colonial notions of America as the promised land, the discourses of nationhood in the republic, the sense of nationhood in American historiography, and the formation of the American Canon. Draws upon extracts from the American Bills of Rights and the Constitution as examples of different types of writing.

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Gavin Cologne-Brookes is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University, UK.

Neil Sammells is Professor of English and Irish Literature at Bath Spa University, UK.

David Timms is Profesor of English at Bath Spa University, UK.

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Writing and America provides a volume of interdisciplinary essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. It reflects the various dialogues and tensions between all kinds of writing that go into making America not only a geographical but also a psychological entity; fiction, poetry, travel writing, literary criticism, history, journalism, legal and political documentation.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0582214173
• ISBN 13: 9780582214170
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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