By B. Miller
ISBN-10: 0230103766
ISBN-13: 9780230103764
In an leading edge analyzing of fin-de-si?cle cultural texts, Brook Miller argues that British representations of the USA, american citizens, and Anglo-American kinfolk on the flip of the 20 th century supplied an incredible discussion board for cultural distinction. studying America, Miller finds, provided an oblique type of self-scrutiny for British writers and readers, who remained thoroughly insulated through the prevalence that critiquing American distinction invoked.
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An incarnation of your most recondite and specialized fantasies, in discovering America you are discovering yourself. Europe equips you with a hereditary, natal self. com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromsoe - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-05 The Americanization of the World (1902) and Philip Burne-Jones’s Dollars and Democracy (1904). America and the British Imaginary self better adjusted to the individual you have become since outgrowing the impositions of birth. The Victorians felt threatened by America for this very reason: it was a society in which people conferred values on themselves, not the kind of society represented by Victorian novels, in which the attribution of character is society’s enfranchisement of creatures who have no reality outside it” (5).
John Burns reiterated the theme: the promise of America was ‘circumscribed and impeded by the undue exaltation of the Unit over the Aggregate, of the Individual as against the Community, of the Monopoly as against the State’” (43). The contrast between these perspectives and the emphasis upon America’s republican institutions, noted in Dickens’s American Notes, partly reflects the conceptualizing of the state in Arnoldian terms at the end of the nineteenth century. As we will see, later British writers did examine Americans’ pride in their republican institutions as well as its values.
Dickens receives the bootmaker “lying on the sofa, with a book and a wine glass” (272). The author’s contrast with his subject appears in the bootmaker’s neglecting to remove his hat upon entering this scene. His rudeness is compounded as he launches into the business transaction: “[He] inquired if I wished him to fix me a boot like that? . that I would be entirely guided by, and would beg to leave the whole subject to, his judgment and discretion. ’ I repeated my last observation” (Dickens 272).
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