The Old World's new world
by Woodward, C. Vann, (Comer Vann)
No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, yearnings and forebodings. America and Americans--according to one of their more indulgent European critics--have long been considered "a fairlyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters." …
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- Full title :The Old World's new world / C. Vann Woodward.
Summary
No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, yearnings and forebodings. America and Americans--according to one of their more indulgent European critics--have long been considered "a fairlyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters." In The Old World's New World, award-winning historian C. Vann Woodward has written a brilli
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- Publication Date:1991.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New York Public Library, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1991.
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- Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 139 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199874323, 0199874328
- oclc:ocn729871097
- LC Classification:D1065.U5
- Dewey Decimal:973
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. How It All Started; 2. The Silver Screen in the West; 3. The Pursuit of Happiness; 4. America As Metaphor; 5. Russo-American Counterpoint; 6. Tantalus Americanus; Acknowledgments; Index.
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