Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660–1830

Eve Tavor Bannet, Susan Manning

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781107001572
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139200356
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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

• Cover
• TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY STUDIES, 1660–1830
• Title
• Copyright
• In memory of Jeffrey H. Richards
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: British and American genres
• CHAPTER 1 Transatlantic books and literary culture
• CHAPTER 2 Transatlantic utopianism and the writing of America
• CHAPTER 3 Tales of wonder, spiritual autobiographies, and providence tales
• CHAPTER 4 Life writings
• CHAPTER 5 Benjamin Franklin and transatlantic literary journalism
• CHAPTER 6 Theatre, drama, performance
• CHAPTER 7 Transatlantic American Indians
• CHAPTER 8 Literature of the ocean
• CHAPTER 9 “To gird this watery globe”
• CHAPTER 10 Ghostly and vernacular presences in the black Atlantic
• CHAPTER 11 Susanna Rowson and the transatlantic captivity narrative
• CHAPTER 12 Domestic fiction and the reprint trade
• CHAPTER 13 Transatlantic Gothic
• CHAPTER 14 Transatlantic Romanticisms
• CHAPTER 15 Journeys of the imagination in Wheatley and Coleridge
• CHAPTER 16 Transatlantic historical fiction
• Further reading
• Index