Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1810 - Migrant Fictions

Informationen zum Autor Eve Tavor Bannet is George Lynn Cross Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her books include Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2005); The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel (2000); a four-volume edition of British and American Letter Manuals, 1680–1810 (2008) and Transatlantic Literary Studies, a collection of essays by British, American and Canadian scholars (co-edited with Susan Manning, Cambridge University Press, 2011). Klappentext Explores transatlantic stories about women! servants! slaves and the poor as read and rewritten in eighteenth-century Britain and America. Zusammenfassung A study of popular eighteenth-century stories which shaped Britons' and Americans' views of the Atlantic world! and about how they were revised by printers and publishers for different readerships in different circumstances. It will be of interest to students of literature! history and Atlantic and transatlantic studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: transatlantic stories and transatlantic readers; Part I. 'Poor Man's Country': 1. Strange adventures; 2. Captivity and antislavery; 3. The parallel Atlantic economy; 4. Fortune's footballs; Part II. The Servant's Tale: 5. The bonds of servitude; 6. Bond and free: contemporary readings of Gronniosaw's Life; 7. Samson Occom's itinerancies; Part III. Printscapes: 8. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war on politeness; 9. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war upon war; Afterword.

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• Authors: Eve Tavor Bannet, Eve Tavor (University of Oklahoma) Bannet
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.2011
• EAN: 9781107007468
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00746-8
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form