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Americanizing Britain : the rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire, Genevieve Abravanel
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- Summary
- "How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture--from jazz to Ford motorcars to Hollywood films--during the first half of the twentieth century, Genevieve Abravanel theorizes the rise of the American Entertainment Empire as a new style of imperialism that threatened Britain's own. In the early twentieth century, the United States excited a range of utopian and dystopian energies in Britain. Authors who might ordinarily seem to have little in common--H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf--began to imagine Britain's future through America. Abravanel explores how these novelists fashioned transatlantic fictions as a response to the encroaching presence of Uncle Sam. She then turns her attention to the arrival of jazz after World War I, showing how a range of writers, from Elizabeth Bowen to W.H. Auden, deployed the new music as a metaphor for the modernization of England. The global phenomenon of Hollywood film proved even more menacing than the jazz craze, prompting nostalgia for English folk culture and a lament for Britain's literary heritage. Abravanel then refracts British debates about America through the writing of two key cultural critics: F.R. Leavis and T.S. Eliot. In so doing, she demonstrates the interdependencies of some of the most cherished categories of literary study--language, nation, and artistic value--by situating the high-low debates within a transatlantic framework."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 206 pages
- Contents
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- Ameritopias: transatlantic fictions of England's future
- Jazzing Britain: the transatlantic jazz invasion and remaking of Englishness
- The entertainment empire: Britain's Hollywood between the wars
- English by example: F.R. Leavis and the Americanization of modern England
- Make it old: inventing Englishness in Four Quartets
- Isbn
- 9780199754458
- Label
- Americanizing Britain : the rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire
- Title
- Americanizing Britain
- Title remainder
- the rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire
- Statement of responsibility
- Genevieve Abravanel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture--from jazz to Ford motorcars to Hollywood films--during the first half of the twentieth century, Genevieve Abravanel theorizes the rise of the American Entertainment Empire as a new style of imperialism that threatened Britain's own. In the early twentieth century, the United States excited a range of utopian and dystopian energies in Britain. Authors who might ordinarily seem to have little in common--H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf--began to imagine Britain's future through America. Abravanel explores how these novelists fashioned transatlantic fictions as a response to the encroaching presence of Uncle Sam. She then turns her attention to the arrival of jazz after World War I, showing how a range of writers, from Elizabeth Bowen to W.H. Auden, deployed the new music as a metaphor for the modernization of England. The global phenomenon of Hollywood film proved even more menacing than the jazz craze, prompting nostalgia for English folk culture and a lament for Britain's literary heritage. Abravanel then refracts British debates about America through the writing of two key cultural critics: F.R. Leavis and T.S. Eliot. In so doing, she demonstrates the interdependencies of some of the most cherished categories of literary study--language, nation, and artistic value--by situating the high-low debates within a transatlantic framework."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Abravanel, Genevieve
- Dewey number
- 820.9/35873
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR129.A4
- LC item number
- A27 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Modernist literature & culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- National characteristics, British, in literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Label
- Americanizing Britain : the rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire, Genevieve Abravanel
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ameritopias: transatlantic fictions of England's future -- Jazzing Britain: the transatlantic jazz invasion and remaking of Englishness -- The entertainment empire: Britain's Hollywood between the wars -- English by example: F.R. Leavis and the Americanization of modern England -- Make it old: inventing Englishness in Four Quartets
- Control code
- 747530801
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 206 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199754458
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 2012008780
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)747530801
- Label
- Americanizing Britain : the rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire, Genevieve Abravanel
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ameritopias: transatlantic fictions of England's future -- Jazzing Britain: the transatlantic jazz invasion and remaking of Englishness -- The entertainment empire: Britain's Hollywood between the wars -- English by example: F.R. Leavis and the Americanization of modern England -- Make it old: inventing Englishness in Four Quartets
- Control code
- 747530801
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 206 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199754458
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 2012008780
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)747530801
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