In search of America : transatlantic essays, 1951-1990
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In search of America : transatlantic essays, 1951-1990
（Contributions in American studies, no. 98）
Greenwood Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This wide ranging selection of essays by a renowned English scholar explores American history, literature, and culture. Many aspects and periods of American history, life, and thought are examined: military, political, biographical, comparative, and more. The text is scholarly, yet readable. The essays cover the young nation, George Washington, European attitudes toward the United States and vice versa, anti-Americanism, and American writers. This work is invaluable as supplemental reading for courses in American history, American literature, and American studies.
In Search of America devotes an entire section to the early problems of the young nation in achieving intellectual and artistic, as well as political, independence. Military, biographical, and other aspects of George Washington provide thought-provoking material. The temperament and talent of American writers, including Stephen Crane, Henry Adams, and Willa Cather are considered.
Table of Contents
Introduction Backward Glances Birth Pangs CREvecour Revisited George Washington's Generalship "They Will All Speak English": Some Cultural Consequences of Independence The Presidential Elections of 1789 and 1792 Madison as Commander-in-Chief Monumental Washington John Marshall's George Washington The Two Georges: The President and the King The Doubled Images: Washington and Lincoln Woodrow Wilson's George Washington Victorian America and After Frances Trollope America at the Great Exhibition of 1851 Mark Twain's "English" Novels Stephen Crane and the American Background of Maggie What Was the Matter with Henry Adams? Willa Cather and Frederick Jackson Turner Old World, New World European Images of America New World, Old World: The Historical Antithesis American Watersheds America's Imaginary Wars European Anti-Americanism Index
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