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Weisbuch, Robert Alan was born on November 22, 1946 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Irving Arthur and Ferne Weisbuch.
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Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson
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In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and American literature in the nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and, finally, to transcend the contemporary British influence. Describing the transatlantic "double-cross" of literary influence, Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature distinctly different from English models and the English insistence that any such attempt could only fail. The American response, as he demonstrates, was to make strengths out of national disadvantages by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of the self, and by reinterpreting and ridiculing major British texts in mocking allusions and scornful parodies. Weisbuch approaches a precise characterization of this "double-cross" by focusing on paired sets of English and American texts. Investigations of the causes, motives, and literary results of the struggle alternate with detailed analyses of several test cases. Weisbuch considers Melville's challenge to Dickens, Thoreau's response to Coleridge and Wordsworth, Hawthorne's adaptation of Keats and influence on Eliot, Whitman's competition with Arnold, and Poe's reshaping of Shelley. Adding a new dimension to the exploration of an emerging aesthetic consciousness, Atlantic Double-Cross provides important insights into the creation of the American literary canon.
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Robert Alan Weisbuch
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Robert Alan Weisbuch, American English educator. Avocations: radio, baseball, automobiles.
M C. American Council Learned Socs. fellow, 1976-1977, Rackham fellow, University of Michigan, 1983; recipient Amoco teaching award University Michigan, 1986. Member Modern Language Association, Emily Dickinson Society (board directors since 1987), Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor magna cum laude, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1968; Master of Philosophy in English, Yale University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy in English, Yale University, 1972.
Career
Assistant Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1972-1976; associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976-1985; professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1985; associate department chairman English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1981-1984; chairman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987-1994; associate professor research, associate dean faculty programs Rackham School Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994-1995; associate vice president research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994-1995; interim dean Graduate School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1995-1996; president, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, since 1997.
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Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson
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Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson
Membership
Member Modern Language Association, Emily Dickinson Society (board directors since 1987), Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Susan Ann Remington, July 23, 1972 (divorced 1979). 1 child, Max; married Louise Wicks Freymann, August 6, 1983 (divorced 1994). Children: Sarah, Michael.
Married Candy Jaye Cooper, August 27, 1994. 1 child, Gabriel.
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American Council Learned Socs. fellow, 1976-1977, Rackham fellow, University of Michigan, 1983. Recipient Amoco teaching award University Michigan, 1986.American Council Learned Socs. fellow, 1976-1977, Rackham fellow, University of Michigan, 1983. Recipient Amoco teaching award University Michigan, 1986.