| The Importance of Feeling English Subjects: Wisselwerking.; Bellettrie.; National characteristics English in literature.; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; American literature; American literature; American literature; American literature; American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850? Leonard Tennenhouse is professor of English, comparative literature, and modern culture and media at Brown University. He is the author of Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres . |