Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 / Cynthia Schoolar Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Cynthia Schoolar, 1962-

Series:

New urban Atlantic

The New Urban Atlantic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitality in literature.

Citizenship in literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Great Britain.

History.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

United States.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

235 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

At the exhausted conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, as nationalisms gained momentum, writers as diverse as Mary Shelley, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Felicia Hemans took up the discourse of hospitality. In a series of innovative transatlantic texts, they posed urgent questions about displacement and the nation: How does one claim to belong? What are the limits of welcome? Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that this select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted tropes of nationalism by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they powerfully reimagined spaces of encounter: the city, the young republic, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Keeping Hospitality 1

2 Mary Shelley at the Threshold: Displacement and Form in Lodore 43

3 A Sailor's Welcome: James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot and Hospitality in the Coastal Zone 77

4 Hospitable History: Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall and the Uses of Merry Old England 109

5 England as Centrifuge: Felicia Hemans and the Threshold Foreclosed 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781137340047

1137340045

OCLC:

868147327