Overview

This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery, natural knowledge, democracy, and religion. In addition, the book also considers the ways in which material texts and genres, including, for example, the essay, the guidebook, the travel narrative, the periodical, the novel, and the poem, can be scrutinized in relation to historically-situated transatlantic transitions, transformations, and border crossings. The volume is underpinned by a thorough examination of historical and conceptual frameworks and prioritizes notions of circulation and exchange, as opposed to transfer and continuance, in its analysis of authors, texts, and ideas. The collection is concerned with the movement of people, texts, and ideas in the currents of transatlantic markets and politics, taking a fresh look at a range of canonical and popular writers of the period, including Austen, Poe, Crèvecoeur, Brockden Brown, Sedgwick, Hemans, Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens, and Melville. In different ways, the essays gathered together here are concerned with the potentially empowering realities of the transitive, circulatory, and contingent experiences of transatlantic literary and cultural production as they are manifest in the long nineteenth century.

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Author:   Annika Bautz ,  Kathryn Gray
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138243422

ISBN 10:   1138243426
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   27 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"CONTENTS Introduction Part I: Travelling Subjects and Transitive Identities Chapter One: Romancing the Slave Trade; Or, Reformation in Mansfield’s Park Elizabeth Fay Chapter Two: ‘‘That Dreadful, Delightful City"": Edgar Allan Poe and the Transatlantic Essaying of London Simon Peter Hull Chapter Three: ""Humble Auxiliaries to Nature"": Go-Betweens and Natural Knowledge in Crèvecoeur’s Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York Kathryn Gray Chapter Four: Writing Pocahontas: Romantic Women Writers and the Transatlantic Rescuing Indian Maiden Melissa Adams-Campbell Part II: Ancient Decline and Nineteenth-Century Moralities Chapter Five: The Politics of Disaster in Lydia Maria Child’s Philothea: A Grecian Romance (1837) Matthew Duques Chapter Six: Christian Morality and Roman Depravity: Illustrating Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) in a Transatlantic Literary Market Annika Bautz Part III: Transatlantic Print Culture and Transitive Texts Chapter Seven: Virtual Museums in Early America: Transatlantic Magazine Culture and Cultural Memory Julia Straub Chapter Eight: Cultural Transfer in the German Atlantic: Brown, Oertel, and the First Translation of a U.S. Novel Leonard von Morzé Chapter Nine: William Blake’s American Afterlives: Transatlantic Poetics in Emerson and Whitman Clare Frances Elliott Chapter Ten: American Notes and English Guidebooks: (Re)Writing English Literature in Melville and Dickens Katie McGettigan and Diana Powell Index"

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Annika Bautz is Associate Professor in English at Plymouth University, UK. Kathryn N. Gray is Reader in Early American Literature at Plymouth University, UK.

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