1st Edition
Americans in British Literature, 1770–1832 A Breed Apart
By Christopher Flynn
Copyright 2008
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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American independence was inevitable by 1780, but British writers spent the several decades following the American Revolution transforming their former colonists into something other than estranged British subjects. Christopher Flynn's engaging and timely book systematically examines for the first time the ways in which British writers depicted America and Americans in the decades immediately... Read more
Contents: Introduction: America and the question of time; English novels on the American Revolution; English reforms in American settings: Utopian scenes and the idea of America; Savagery and civility: states of nature and the quest for natural man; A breed apart: the traveler as ethnographer; Conclusion; Bibliographer; Index.
Biography
Christopher Flynn is an assistant professor of English literature at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, USA.
'Original and theoretically sophisticated...Christopher Flynn's engaging and timely book is an important contribution to scholarship on Anglo-American literary relations in the Colonial and post-Colonial periods.' Stephen Behrendt, University of Nebraska, USA 'Christopher Flynn's Americans in British Literature, 1770-1832: A Breed Apart is a powerful discussion of complex texts. It is most unusual to find Hall and Trollope placed so confidently in so rich a literary, historical, philosophical and political context...' Studies in Travel Writing 'Flynn's unique and timely study gives a history to seemingly timeless stereotypes and helps us to understand their purpose and origin.' Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 'Americans in British Literature is very much worth the read for anyone interested in British Romanticism or the long-eighteenth-century Atlantic World more broadly. Flynn’s concise and compelling study thankfully fills a gap in scholarship on the relationship between Britain and early America.' BARS Bulletin
