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

"Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Eve Tavor Bannet
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107425439
• ISBN: 978-1-107-42543-9
• 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