Imagining America

In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize.

List of contents

1. Imagining America: Versions of Niagara 2. Institutional America: Frances Trollope, Anthony Trollope, and Charles Dickens 3. Aesthetic America: Oscar Wilde and Rupert Brooke 4. Epic (and Chivalric) America: Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson 5. Futuristic America: H. G. Wells 6. Primitive America: D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico 7. Theological America: W. H. Auden in New York 8. Psychedelic America: Aldous Huxley in California 9. Mystical America: Christopher Isherwood in California

About the author

Peter Conrad is an Australian-born academic specialising in English literature. He has been a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford (1970–3), was Hodder Fellow at Princeton University (1975–6) and has lectured at several American universities.

Summary

In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Conrad
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032897943
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289794-3
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature & literary studies, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Biography, Literature and Literary studies