Americanizing Britain
The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 May 2012
- ISBN 9780199754458
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 163x234x27 mm
- Weight 533 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 illustrations 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many in Britain believed their nation to be a dominant world power that its former colony, the United States, could only hope to emulate. Yet by the interwar years, the United States seemed to some to embody a different type of global eminence, one based not only on political and economic stature but also on new forms of mass culture like jazz and the Hollywood film. Britain's fraught transition from formidable empire to victim of Americanization is rarely discussed by literary scholars. However, the dawn of the "American century " is the period of literary modernism and, this book argues, the signs of Americanization-from jazz records to Ford motorcars to Hollywood films-helped to establish the categories of elite and mass culture that still inspire debate in modernist studies. This book thus brings together two major areas of modernist scholarship, the study of nation and empire and the study of mass culture, by suggesting that Britain was reacting to a new type of empire, the American entertainment empire, in its struggles to redefine its national culture between the wars. At the same time, British anxieties about American influence contributed to conceptions of Britain's imperial scope, and what it meant to have or be an empire. Through its treatment of a wide range of authors and cultural phenomena, the book explores how Britain reinvented itself in relation to its ideas of America, and how Britain's literary modernism developed and changed through this reinvention.
Very rarely, a new volume of cultural or literary criticism appears which is so obvious in its aims that it seems startling that it has not already been written. This superbly crafted book is precisely this and represents a landmark in modernist and transatlantic studies...This is an outstanding contribution to the scholarship of British and American cultures of modernism, to transatlantic studies, and to modernist literary studies; rigorous and immensely enjoyable.
Table of Contents:
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
