Forked Tongue Comparing Twentieth-Century British and American Culture.

This collection of essays from scholars, critics and poets from both sides of the Atlantic sets out to discover the distinctiveness of modern British and American literature by comparing and contrasting the two traditions. It considers both the way the two literatures have influenced each other and what distinguishing characteristics they each possess. The book covers all the major genres and contains a mixture of celebrated and less well known writers and texts. It spans the period from T.S. Eliot and Willa Cather to Philip Roth and Angela Carter. Themes such as race and gender, myth and history, intertextuality and parallel traditions are considered. The contributors are: Richard Brown (University of Leeds);Bryan Cheyette (University of London); Ruby Cohn (University of California, USA); Peter Egri (Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary); Brian Harding (University of Birmingham); Mark Jarman (Vanderbilt University, USA); William A. Johnsen (Michigan State University, USA); Olga Kenyon (University of Bradford); Hermione Leed (University of York); Eric Mottram (University of London); Judie Newman (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne); David Peck (California State University, USA); Paulina Palmer (University of Warwick); Brian Scobie (University of Leeds); David Seed (University of Liverpool); Keith Tuma (Miami University, USA).