{"product_id":"the-importance-of-feeling-english-leonard-tennenhouse-9780691096810","title":"The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Feeling English\u003c\/i\u003e, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using the concept of transatlantic circulation, he shows how some of the first American authors--from poets such as Timothy Dwight and Philip Freneau to novelists like William Hill Brown and Charles Brockden Brown--applied their newfound perspective to pre-existing British literary models. These American \"re-writings\" would in turn inspire native British authors such as Jane Austen and Horace Walpole to reconsider their own ideas of subject, household, and nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The enduring nature of these literary exchanges dramatically recasts early American literature as a literature of diaspora, Tennenhouse argues--and what made the settlers' writings distinctly and indelibly American was precisely their insistence on reproducing Englishness, on making English identity portable and adaptable. Written in an incisive and illuminating style, \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Feeling English\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the complex roots of American literature, and shows how its transatlantic movement aided and abetted the modernization of Anglophone culture at large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonard Tennenhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691096813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691096810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.49w x 0.74d","brand":"Leonard Tennenhouse","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44583727071487,"sku":"9780691096810","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa415fcb-d2bf-4165-b1e9-f1b1b1296788.jpg?v=1701883218","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-importance-of-feeling-english-leonard-tennenhouse-9780691096810","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}