Abstract
Images of Europe as a whole have been imposed from the outside and they have been constructed from the inside. However, Europe is not always being presented as a unified front, but rather it falls into regions about which myths have been formed of what is typical of them. Malcolm Bradbury, for example, has investigated the myths of Europe that have been created by Americans, some of which are still influential today. He states that ‘[t]he Europe [the Americans] imagined was not so much a nation, or even a complex of nations. It was an idea, an opposite, a polar contrast’.1 Seen from the outside and used as ‘the other’ to the concept of a unified America, Europe is also being presented as a unity. The Americans offered ‘a generalised spirit of “Europe” as one place, to develop in the European imagination’.2KeywordsMain CharacterPolar ContrastRoyal FamilyParadise LostEnglish CultureThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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