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Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson Paperback - 1989
by Robert Weisbuch
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Had Emerson expected gods in trousers?
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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 contemporary British influence.
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- Title Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson
- Author Robert Weisbuch
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- Pages 358
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date November 14, 1989
- ISBN 9780226891514 / 0226891518
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.01 x 0.87 in (22.91 x 15.27 x 2.21 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86006922
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.9
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