Abstract
The paper analyses the image of America and Americans presented in J. B. Priestley’s essays. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the image of America and Americans in J. B. Priestley’s journalistic writings. The paper analyses his essays from different years included in the collection “Notes in the Margins”: “American Notes”, “Who Is Anti-American?”, “America: Dream and Scene” – from the perspective of Anglo-American ties and interactions reflected in them. The paper is novel in that it is the first to analyse J. B. Priestley’s essays on America within the framework of the imagological approach. The study of the formation and transformation of the image of America and Americans in the creative work of the English writer will clarify the dynamic contradictory process of interaction between literary and public consciousness. The results showed that the image of America and Americans is ambivalent. Throughout his life, as he gets acquainted with and immerses himself in the culture, J. B. Priestley changes his views, but the rejection of the imposed “pretty picture” and the widespread “admass”, which originates in America, remains. In all the essays, the writer focuses on the distinction between the political images of the countries represented on the pages of magazines and the people who live in them.
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