Deconstructing America
Sheldon Rothblatt, 23 July 1992
Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature
by Stephen Fender.
Cambridge, 400 pp., £40, April 1992,0 521 41175 0 Show More
by Stephen Fender.
Cambridge, 400 pp., £40, April 1992,
“... tendency in Britain, as when Dr Johnson ‘reduced’ mountains to ‘pictures’ by using a Claude mirror when climbing. One puzzle in particular Fender explains with ingenuity. Why, especially because of the American propensity to advertise, was it that settlers in their letters home rarely attempted to persuade others to emigrate? The answer he ... ”