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Transatlantic literary exchanges, 1790-1870 : gender, race, and nation / edited by Kevin Hutchings and Julia M. Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Indians in literature.
- Relations.
- Book industries and trade.
- History.
- North America--In literature.
- North America.
- Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings.
- Book industries and trade--United States--History--19th century.
- North America--Relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Relations--North America.
- Great Britain.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
- Summary:
- Hutchings (English, U. of Northern British Columbia, Canada) and Wright (English, Dalhousie U., Canada) present nine essays that explore anti-hegemonic discourses of gender, race, and cultural difference in transatlantic literary exchanges in the years 1790 to 1870. Topics include the framing of North America as the site of a gendered threat to domestic security and women's health, destabilization of sexuality in transatlantic writings, representations of indigenous shamanism by Anglophone writers, Frederick Douglass and the transatlantic abolitionist movement in the mid-19th century, the mobility of agents in adventure novels as a challenge to consolidating notions of nationhood and British imperial power, and colonial environmental-determinist claims about the psychological effects of Niagara Falls on local indigenous nations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction: Mobilizing gender, race, and nation / by Kevin Hutchings and Julia M. Wright
- Section I: Transatlantic mobility: gender and sexuality. Charlotte Smith and the spectre of America / by Jared Richman
- Romantic aesthetics, gender, and transatlantic travel in Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada / by Charity Matthews
- Felicia Hemans, Herman Melville and the queer Atlantic / by Daniel Hannah
- Section II: Reconfiguring race. Prophets of resistance: Native American shamans and Anglophone writers / by Tim Fulford
- Frederick Douglass and transatlantic echoes of the color line / by Bridget Bennett
- Pirates and patriots: citizenship, race, and the transatlantic adventure novel / by Sarah H. Ficke
- Section III: Cultural exchanges: print, tourism, and politics
- Charles Brockden Brown and England: of genres, the Minerva Press, and the early Republican reprint trade / by Eve Tavor Bannet
- Romantic Niagara: environmental aesthetics, indigenous culture, and transatlantic tourism, 1794-1850 / by Kevin Hutchings
- Beyond the American empire: Charles Brockden Brown and the making of a new global economic order / by Wil Verhoeven.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1409409538
- 9781409409533
- OCLC:
- 716068832
- Publisher Number:
- 99945625599
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