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Informationen zum Autor Meredith L. McGill is a professor of English at Rutgers University. Klappentext Drawing on examples such as Felicia Hemans's elaboration of the foundational American myth of Plymouth Rock, Emma Lazarus's ambivalent welcome of Europe's cast-off populations, black abolitionist Mary Webb's European performances of Hiawatha, and American reprints of Robert Browning and George Meredith, the eleven essays in this book focus on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explore the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures. Zusammenfassung The transatlantic crossing of people and goods shaped nineteenth-century poetry in surprising ways. This book focuses on poetic depictions of exile! slavery! immigration! and citizenship and explores the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction : The traffic in poems : traversing the Atlantic States of exile / Tricia Lootens The cafetal of Maria del Occidente and the Anglo-American race for Cuba / Kirsten Silva Gruesz Is the native an American? National identity and the British reception of Hiawatha / Kate Flint Hiawatha's black Atlantic itineraries / Tavia Nyong'o Emma Lazarus and the golem of liberty / Max Cavitch A marriage of cultures Lord Byron, Lady Byron, and Mrs. Stowe / William Galperin Mapping the cultural field : Aurora Leigh in America / Mary Loeffelholz Transatlantic modern love / Adela Pinch Measured distances Bryant, or, American romanticism / Virginia Jackson Robert Browning, transported by meter / Yopie Prins No coward souls : poetic engagements between Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson / Michael Moon
