Seed, D ORCID: 0000-0002-7726-6144
(2016)
The Land of the Future: British Accounts of the USA at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.
European Journal of American Studies, 11 (2).
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Abstract
This article examines the ways in which British travelers to the USA at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries articulated their different perceptions of a nation which was emerging as a major imperial competitor. Characteristically these responses showed an ambivalent tension between respect for the growing commercial energy of the USA and a suspicion that it was posing an increasing threat to British national self-perception. Works examined here include those which attempt to yoke together the two nations in a common "Anglo-Saxon" destiny. The essay analyzes the expressive means used by writers to depict the USA as a culture of the future. The discussion includes famous figures like Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells, but also covers a range of turn-of-the-century speculative writers like the journalist W.T. Stead.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Edward Bulwer-Lytton, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, speculative fiction, travel writing, W.T. Stead |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2016 08:06 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 07:30 |
DOI: | 10.4000/ejas.11536 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3003166 |