In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction.

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BROOK MILLER Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA.

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Introduction The Travel Book: Performing British Culture in America and on the Page Commerce, Reunion, and the Anglo-American Public Sphere The White Atlantic: Anglo-Saxon Racialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Modernity, Fabulation, and America in Dracula Holroyd's Man: Tradition, Fetishization, and the United States in Nostromo Americanization and Henry James Conclusion