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

by Leonard Tennenhouse

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691171270
• ISBN13: 9780691171272
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"