02965cam a22003495i 4500 27614 27585 017849827 EG-ScBUE 20190911113930.0 160425r20162012enka f b 001 0 eng d 9780190272418 (pbk.) StDuBDS eng rda StDuBDS Uk EG-ScBUE 820.935873 ABR 22 Abravanel, Genevieve, 1975- author. Americanizing Britain : the rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire / Genevieve Abravanel. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. xii, 206 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Modernist literature & culture Originally published : 2012. Includes bibliographical references and index. "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. English literature American influences. BUEsh English literature 20th century History and criticism. BUEsh 30833 Modernism (Literature) Great Britain. BUEsh 40541 United States Civilization 1918-1945. BUEsh United States In literature. BUEsh HHUUEENN September2019 Reading book ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2019-09-11 Purchase 600.00 0 820.935873 ABR 000048056 2025-07-15 00:00:00 750.00 2019-09-11 BB