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New and original collection of scholarly essays examining the literary complexities of the Atlantic world system. 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 th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eckel, Leslie Elizabeth (Editor ), Elliott, Clare (Clare Frances) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Literature and transnationalism.
Littérature et transnationalisme.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
American literature.
Literatur
Atlantischer Raum
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: The New Atlantic Literary Studies
  • I. Atlantic Cultural Geographies
  • 1. The Silkworm and the Bee: Georgia, Cognitive Mapping, and the Atlantic Labour System in Boltzius and Thomson
  • 2. From Auburn to Upper Canada: Pastoral and Georgic Villages in the British Atlantic World
  • 3. London's Pan-Atlantic Public Sphere: Luso-Hispanic Journals, 1808-1830
  • 4. Emerson's Atlantic States
  • II. Atlantic Mobilities
  • 5. Shifting Cultures and Transatlantic Imitations: The Case of Burney, Bennett and Read
  • 6. 'We are where we are': Colm Tóibín's BROOKLYN, Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment
  • 7. Contemporary Atlantic Literature and the Unhappiness of Travel
  • III. The Black Atlantic
  • 8. Writing Race and Slavery in the Francophone Atlantic: Transatlantic Connections and Contradictions in Claire de Duras's Ourika and Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal
  • 9. Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany's and Frederick Douglass's Countercultural Atlantic
  • 10. Black Diaspora Literature and the Question of Slavery
  • IV. Atlantic Genders and Sexualities
  • 11. The Early Modern Queer Atlantic: Narratives of Sex and Gender on New World Soil
  • 12. 'Local locas': Trans-Antillean Queerness in Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena
  • 13. Queer Atlantic Modernism and Masculinity in Claude McKay's Banjo and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night
  • V. Reform and Revolution
  • 14. Urban Reform, Transatlantic Movements and US Writers: 1837-1861
  • 15. Early Feminism and the Circulation of Self-Reliance in the Atlantic World
  • 16. Suffragette Celebrity at Home from Abroad: Feminist Periodicals and Transatlantic Circulation
  • VI. Atlantic Exchanges
  • 17. An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the Origins of United States Literature
  • 18. Taming the American Shrew: Frances Hodgson Burnett's New Woman and the Transatlantic Courtship Plot
  • 19. Music, Language and (Latin) American Grains: William Carlos Williams's Voyage to Pagany and 'The Desert Music'
  • VII. Atlantic Ecologies
  • 20. 'Calcutta still haunts my Fancy', or the Confusion of Old and New World Ecologies in Early Caribbean Literature
  • 21. 'More Savage than Bears or Wolves': Animals, Colonialism and the Aboriginal Atlantic
  • 22. Reading the 'Book of Nature': Emerson, the Hunterian Museum and Transatlantic Science
  • 23. Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism
  • VIII. Atlantic Events
  • 24. Sputniks, Ice-Picks, G.P.U.: Nabokov's Pale Fire
  • 25. 'O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag': Bob Dylan, the Beatles and T. S. Eliot's Transatlantic Encounters
  • 26. Unbridgeable Gaps: Time, Space and Memory in the Post-9/11 Novel
  • Contributors
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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