Introduction: The Anglo-American Counter-Identity
Introduction: The Anglo-American Counter-Identity
The interaction between French Anglophilia and Anglophobia is traced particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. The USA is regarded as a modernized Britain and especially since the 20th century has superseded it as the main Anglo-Saxon ‘other’. The arguments for and against the American antithesis are analysed.
Keywords: Anglophilia, Anglophobia, anti-Americanism
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