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Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790-1870: Gender, Race, and Nation

Julia M. Wright

Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race and national and cultural differences, this collection takes up a rich range of authors and topics, from Charlotte Smith and Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville, and from representations of indigenous religion in British Romantic literary discourse to gender and transatlantic travel, the abolitionist movement and the transatlantic adventure novel.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Aug 18th, 2011
  • Pages: 226
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.56in - 1.11lb
  • EAN: 9781409409533
  • Categories: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Kevin Hutchings is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Literature, Culture, and Environmental Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, and Julia M. Wright is Associate Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University.

Praise for this book

'The essays in Transatlantic Literary Exchanges examine spaces where national attachments are mixed, multiple, and/or ambiguous. In focusing on such liminal spaces in an impressive range of works and authors, the collection offers many important new insights into the construction of-and contestation over-key conceptual categories, such as sexuality, nature, and genre. These insights pose profound questions about the way we approach particular authors, how we think of American and British literature in general from the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries, and, ultimately, about the stories we tell about this period in literary history.' Jim Egan, Brown University '[This book] is interdisciplinary and consistently thorough in its analyses, being concerned with transatlantic culture in all its many facets - historical, political, philosophical and theological - and the combined effect is to read the nineteenth-century Atlantic world as an imaginative space where social, economic and political exchange occurs in frequently surprising, and often destabilising, cultural forms.' Literature and History '[This book] brings together a range of topics and methodologies relevant to transatlantic studies, providing a current introduction to the field by describing ongoing trends and highlighting particular researches.' Romanticism