TY - BOOK ID - 77875693 TI - Americans in British literature, 1770-1832 : a breed apart PY - 2008 SN - 1315262851 1281238449 9786611238445 0754692191 9780754692195 9781351959308 1351959301 9780754660477 9781281238443 0754660478 9781281238443 1351959298 PB - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - Travel in literature. KW - Voyages and travels in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - American influences. KW - United States KW - Description and travel. KW - Description and travel UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77875693 AB - Christopher Flynn's timely book systematically examines for the first time how British writers portrayed America and Americans in the decades immediately following the revolutionary war. In sentimental novels of the 1780's and 1790's, prose and poetry by Wollstonecraft, Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth; and novels and travel accounts by Smollett, Lennox, Frances Trollope, and Basil Hall, Americans are depicted as a breed apart, separated both geographically and temporally from the 'mother country.' ER -