Marcus Cunliffe, Phyllis Palmer

In Search of America

Transatlantic Essays, 1951-1990

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 869g
• ISBN-13: 9780313277122
• ISBN-10: 0313277125
• Artikelnr.: 25570065

Autorenporträt

MARCUS CUNLIFFE (1922-1990) was a British-born historian who wrote more than a dozen books on American history and literature. A commentator on American life, he had been University Professor at George Washington University since 1980. He was a prolific writer, focusing extensively on George Washington and the early history of the United States. He authored, among others, The Nation Takes Shape, American Presidents and the Presidency, The Ages of Man: From Sav-age to Sew-age, Soldiers and Civilians, and The Literature of the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Backward Glances Birth Pangs Crèvecour 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