Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660-1830

by Bannet, Eve Tavor; Manning, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781107001572
• ISBN10: 1107001579
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-31
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The recently developed field of transatlantic literary studies has encouraged scholars to move beyond national literatures towards an examination of communications between Britain and the Americas. The true extent and importance of these material and literary exchanges is only just beginning to be discovered. This collection of original essays explores the transatlantic literary imagination during the key period from 1660 to 1830: from the colonization of the Americas to the formative decades following political separation between the nations. Contributions from leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic bring a variety of approaches and methods to bear on both familiar and undiscovered texts. Revealing how literary genres were borrowed and readapted to a different context, the volume offers an index of the larger literary influences going backwards and forwards across the ocean.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: British and American genres	p. 1
Transatlantic books and literary culture	p. 10
Transatlantic utopianism and the writing of America	p. 28
Tales of wonder, spiritual autobiographies, and providence tales	p. 46
Life writings	p. 60
Benjamin Franklin and transatlantic literary journalism	p. 75
Theatre, drama, performance	p. 91
Transatlantic American Indians	p. 106
Literature of the ocean	p. 124
"To gird this watery globe": Freneau, Barlow, and American neoclassical poetry	p. 139
Ghostly and vernacular presences in the black Atlantic	p. 154
Susanna Rowson and the transatlantic captivity narrative	p. 169
Domestic fiction and the reprint trade	p. 186
Transatlantic Gothic	p. 202
Transatlantic Romanticisms	p. 219
Journeys of the imagination in Wheatley and Coleridge	p. 238
Transatlantic historical fiction	p. 254
Further reading	p. 271
Index	p. 278
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