The Edinburgh companion to Atlantic literary studies / edited by Leslie Elizabeth Eckel and Clare Frances Elliott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eckel, Leslie Elizabeth, editor.

Elliott, Clare (Clare Frances), editor.

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature and transnationalism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 419 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Atlantic literary studies

Companion to Atlantic literary studies

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

This Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area. The essays focus on literature and culture from first contact to the present, exploring fruitful Atlantic connections across space and time, across national cultures, and embracing literature, culture and society. This research collection proposes that the analysis of literature and culture does not depend solely upon geographical setting to uncover textual meaning. Instead, it offers Atlantic connections based around migration, race, gender and sexuality, ecologies, and other significant ideological crossovers in the Atlantic World. The result is an exciting new critical map written by leading international researchers of a lively and expanding field.

Contents:

I Atlantic Cultural Geographies

Chapter 1 The Silkworm and the Bee: Georgia, Cognitive Mapping, and the Atlantic Labour System in Boltzius and Thomson / Leonard von Morzé Morzé, Leonard von 17

Chapter 2 From Auburn to Upper Canada: Pastoral and Georgic Villages in the British Atlantic World / Juliet Shields Shields, Juliet 31

Chapter 3 London's Pan-Atlantic Public Sphere: Luso-Hispanic journals, 1808-1830 / Joselyn M. Almeida Almeida, Joselyn M. 45

Chapter 4 Emerson's Atlantic States / Christopher Hanion Hanion, Christopher 59

II Atlantic Mobilities

Chapter 5 Shifting Cultures and Transatlantic Imitations: The Case of Burney, Bennett and Read / Eve Tavor Bannet Bannet, Eve Tavor 75

Chapter 6 'We are where we are': Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn, Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment / Sinéad Moynihan Moynihan, Sinéad 88

Chapter 7 Contemporary Atlantic Literature and the Unhappiness of Travel / Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl 103

III The Black Atlantic

Chapter 8 Writing Race and Slavery in the Francophone Atlantic: Transatlantic Connections and Contradictions in Claire de Duras's Ounka and Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal / Susan Castillo Street Street, Susan Castillo 119

Chapter 9 Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany's and Frederick Douglass's Countercultural Atlantic / Leslie Elizabeth Eckel Eckel, Leslie Elizabeth 131

Chapter 10 Black Diaspora Literature and the Question of Slavery / Yogita Goyal Goyal, Yogita 146

IV Atlantic Genders and Sexualities

Chapter 11 The Early Modern Queer Atlantic: Narratives of Sex and Gender on New World Soil / Jennifer Frangos Frangos, Jennifer 163

Chapter 12 'Local locas': Trans-Antillean Queerness in Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena / Ivonne M. Garcia Garcia, Ivonne M. 176

Chapter 13 Queer Atlantic Modernism and Masculinity in Claude McKay's Banjo and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Might / Daniel Hannah Hannah, Daniel 189

V Reform and Revolution

Chapter 14 Urban Reform, Transatlantic Movements and US Writers: 1837-1861 / Brigitte Bailey Bailey, Brigitte 205

Chapter 15 Early Feminism and the Circulation of Self-Reliance in the Atlantic World / Clare Frances Elliott Elliott, Clare Frances 220

Chapter 16 Suffragette Celebrity at Home from Abroad: Feminist Periodicals and Transatlantic Circulation / Barbara Green Green, Barbara 235

VI Atlantic Exchanges

Chapter 17 An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the Origins of United States Literature / David Greenham Greenham, David 253

Chapter 18 Taming the American Shrew: Frances Hodgson Burnett's New Woman and the Transatlantic Courtship Plot / Sarah Wagner-McCoy Wagner-McCoy, Sarah 266

Chapter 19 Music, Language and (Latin) American Grams: William Carlos Williams's Voyage to Pagany and 'The Desert Music' / Daniel Katz Katz, Daniel 282

VII Atlantic Ecologies

Chapter 20 'Calcutta still haunts my Fancy1, or the Confusion of Old and New World Ecologies in Early Caribbean Literature / Louis Kirk McAuley McAuley, Louis Kirk 297

Chapter 21 'More Savage than Bears or Wolves': Animals, Colonialism and the Aboriginal Atlantic / Kevin Hatchings Hatchings, Kevin 311

Chapter 22 Reading the 'Book of Nature': Emerson, the Hunterian Museum and Transatlantic Science / Samantha C. Harvey Harvey, Samantha C. 325

Chapter 23 Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism / Susan Oliver Oliver, Susan 340

VIII Atlantic Events

Chapter 24 Sputniks, Ice-Picks, G.P.U.: Nabokov's Pale Fire / Adam Pieite Pieite, Adam 357

Chapter 25 'O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag': Bob Dylan, the Beatles and T. S. Eliot's Transatlantic Encounters / Christopher Gair Gair, Christopher 371

Chapter 26 Unbridgeable Gaps: Time, Space and Memory in the Post-9/11 Novel / Catherine Morley Morley, Catherine 384.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

1474402941

9781474402941

OCLC:

949913154

Publisher Number:

99970188508