03127cam a22003615i 4500999001700000001001000017003000900027005001700036008004100053020002500094040004500119082002400164100004200188245011400230264005800344300006400402336002600466337002800492338002700520490003500547500003300582504005100615520161600666650005202282650007502334650005702409651005102466651004102517653002802558655001702586942001202603952015002615  c27614d27585017849827EG-ScBUE20190911113930.0160425r20162012enka   f b    001 0 eng d  a9780190272418 (pbk.)  aStDuBDSbengerdacStDuBDSdUkdEG-ScBUE04a820.935873bABR2221 aAbravanel, Genevieve,d1975-eauthor.10aAmericanizing Britain :bthe rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire /cGenevieve Abravanel. 1aOxford ;aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2016.  axii, 206 pages :billustrations (black and white) ;c24 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aModernist literature & culture  aOriginally published : 2012.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"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. 7aEnglish literaturexAmerican influences.2BUEsh 7aEnglish literaturey20th centuryxHistory and criticism.2BUEsh930833 7aModernism (Literature)zGreat Britain.2BUEsh940541 7aUnited StatesxCivilizationy1918-1945.2BUEsh 7aUnited StatesxIn literature.2BUEsh  bHHUUEENNcSeptember2019  vReading book  2ddccBB  00102ddc40708BaccahaMAINbMAINc2NDd2019-09-11ePurchaseg600.00l0o820.935873 ABRp000048056r2025-07-15 00:00:00v750.00w2019-09-11yBB