Special relationships : Anglo-American affinities and antagonisms, 1854-1936

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Special relationships : Anglo-American affinities and antagonisms, 1854-1936

edited by Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book addresses the special relationship from the perspective of post-Second World War British governments. It argues that Britain's foreign policy challenges the dominant idea that its power has been waning and that it sees itself as the junior partner to the hegemonic US. The book also shows how at moments of international crisis successive British governments have attempted to re-play the same foreign policy role within the special relationship. It discusses the power of a profoundly antagonistic relationship between Mark Twain and Walter Scott. The book demonstrates Stowe's mis-reading and mis-representation of the Highland Clearances. It explains how Our Nig, the work of a Northern free black, also provides a working-class portrait of New England farm life, removed from the frontier that dominates accounts of American agrarian life. Telegraphy - which transformed transatlantic relations in the middle of the century- was used by spiritualists as a metaphor for the ways in which communications from the other world could be understood. The story of the Bolton Whitman Fellowship is discussed. Beside Sarah Orne Jewett's desk was a small copy of the well-known Raeburn portrait of Sir Walter Scott. Henry James and George Eliot shared a transatlantic literary network which embodied an easy flow of mutual interest and appreciation between their two milieux. In her autobiography, Gertrude Stein assigns to her lifelong companion the repeated comment that she has met three geniuses in her life: Stein, Picasso, and Alfred North Whitehead. -- .

Table of Contents

  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction - Janet Beer & Bridget Bennett
  • 1. Did Mark Twain bring down the temple on Scott's shoulders? - Susan Manning
  • 2. Stowe's sunny memories of Highland slavery - Judie Newman
  • 3. Gothic legacies: Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Stoddard's New England - Anne-Marie Ford
  • 4. Our Nig: Fetters of an American farmgirl
  • 5. Crossing over: Spiritualism and the Atlantic divide
  • 6. Poet of comrades: Walt Whitman and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship
  • 7. Nation making and fiction making: Sarah Orne Jewitt, 'The Tory Lover', and Walter Scott, 'Waverley' - Alison Easton
  • 8. Beyond the 'Americana': Henry James reads George Eliot - Lindsey Traub
  • 9. 'If I were a man': Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand and the sexual education of girls - Janet Beer & Ann Heilmann
  • 10. 'Embattled tendencies': Wharton, Woolf and the nature of Modernism - Katharine Joslin
  • 11. Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S. Eliot and Gothic Hauntings in Waugh's 'A handful of dust' and Barnes's 'Nightwood' - Avril Horner & Sue Zlosnik
  • 12. Encounters with genius: Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead - Kate Fulbrook

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