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Zusatztext Essential, solid, and penetrating...possesses that great virtue of having successfully navigated a maelstrom of eddies and crosscurrents in an exciting and emerging subfield within British literary modernism. Informationen zum Autor Genevieve Abravanel is Associate Professor of English at Franklin and Marshall College. Klappentext Genevieve Abravanel's trenchant monograph anatomizes the various ways British writers responded to the ever-increasing influence of U.S culture on England and the rest of the world. Specifically, she shows how the threat of Americanization encouraged a widespread retreat into nostalgia for English literary heritage and folk culture, rendering Englishness a consolation prize for the anticipated loss of imperial supremacy. Zusammenfassung Americanizing Britain anatomizes the various ways British writers responded to the ever-increasing influence of U.S. culture on England and the rest of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editors' Foreword Introduction Chapter One Ameritopias: Transatlantic Fictions of England's Future Chapter Two Jazzing Britain: The Transatlantic Jazz Invasion and the Remaking of Englishness Chapter Three The Entertainment Empire: Britain's Hollywood between the Wars Chapter Four English by Example: F.R. Leavis and the Americanization of Modern England Chapter Five Make it Old: Inventing Englishness in Four Quartets Afterword Notes Index
