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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. "In this major study, Professor Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist, and, finally, to transcend contemporary British influence. Describing what he terms the transatlantic 'double-cross' of literary influence, Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature different from English models and the English insistence that any such attempt could only fail - that Americans lacked the requisite historical associations and distinctive national 'manner'. The American response, as he demonstrates, was to turn national disadvantages into strengths by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of the self, and by reinterpreting and ridiculing major British texts." (From the book's cover write-up) CONTENTS : THE DIMENSIONS OF INFLUENCE --- The Burden of Britain and the American Writer -- -Melville's "Bartleby" and the Dead Letter of Charles Dickens WRITER, NATION, CULTURE --- A Litany of Causes --- Whitman's Personalism, Arnold's Culture AGES OF NATIONAL LIFE --- Cultural Time in England and America --- Thoreau's Dawn and the Lake School's Night SUBSTITUTING THE PAST --- History in the Brain, Thought in the Land --- History, Time, and Spirit : Whitman Against Wordsworth, Carlyle and Emerson Against Themselves REDEEMING THE REAL --- American Actualism --- The Actualist Hero: Whitman and Wordsworth, Emerson and Carlyle Once More THE AGING OF AMERICA --- Chronological Insecurity --- Henry James and the Treaty of Gardencourt TITLE : Atlantic Double-Cross : American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson AUTHOR : Robert Weisbuch IMPRINT : University of Chicago Press PLACE : Chicago DATE : (1989) EDITION : 2nd Paperback Printing DETAILS : Academic Paperback published for the trade; contains a Preface, Notes, an Index; [xiv] + 334 pages; 5 7/8" x 9"; printed glossy paper covers, glued. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR: Soft bumps to fore-edge corner tips; mild surface rub; displays nicely. Text-block edges are clean. BINDING : Solid - Tight. INTERIOR: Clean and presentable with no underlining, no marginalia, no writing, and no signatures.