吉納維芙·阿布拉瓦內爾(Genevieve Abravanel),富蘭剋林與馬歇爾學院英語語言學副教授。
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 " 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.
發表於2024-11-08
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評分某種意義上,美國自成立至今所發生的許多現象,早在1620年的“五月花號公約”事件中便已“注定”—這是一個民主自治的團體,同時也是一個無意中建立的平等文化,多年來,這種文化植根於北美社會的各個角落,無論“高雅”還是“低俗”、“白人”還是黑人,“大眾”還是“小眾”...
評分某種意義上,美國自成立至今所發生的許多現象,早在1620年的“五月花號公約”事件中便已“注定”—這是一個民主自治的團體,同時也是一個無意中建立的平等文化,多年來,這種文化植根於北美社會的各個角落,無論“高雅”還是“低俗”、“白人”還是黑人,“大眾”還是“小眾”...
圖書標籤: 英國 美國 社會學 社會學 歐洲 modernism Studies Nonfiction
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