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020			_a9780190272418 (pbk.)
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082	0	4	_a820.935873 _bABR _222
100	1		_aAbravanel, Genevieve, _d1975- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAmericanizing Britain : _bthe rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire / _cGenevieve Abravanel.
264		1	_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2016.
300			_axii, 206 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aModernist literature & culture
500			_aOriginally published : 2012.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_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.
650		7	_aEnglish literature _xAmerican influences. _2BUEsh
650		7	_aEnglish literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _2BUEsh _930833
650		7	_aModernism (Literature) _zGreat Britain. _2BUEsh _940541
651		7	_aUnited States _xCivilization _y1918-1945. _2BUEsh
651		7	_aUnited States _xIn literature. _2BUEsh
653			_bHHUUEENN _cSeptember2019
655			_vReading book
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