Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution
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Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution

A Wish for Air and Liberty

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution

A Wish for Air and Liberty

About this book

Citizenship is at the forefront of popular imagination as political movements and state governments around the world traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric and call for increased policing of borders. Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty looks back to a critical historical juncture in the development of citizenship to uncover how literature contoured and contested imaginings of citizenship. While territory and the nation-state often frame our understanding of citizenship, this book focuses on how non-citizens, foreigners, and strangers have long been central to citizenship's coherence. Rather than rootedness, literary texts exposed the circulations of persons, ideas, and affections at the heart of citizenship. This book brings together an unlikely combination of writers—Olaudah Equiano, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Herman Melville—to show how literature in the Age of Revolution exposed contradictions in notions of liberty and slavery that impacted how citizenship was conceived and practiced.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032794815
eBook ISBN
9781040120279
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Early American History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 “Where My Heart Had Always Been”: Cosmopolitan Citizenship andReligious Community in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative
  10. 2 Authority, Anti-Citizenship, and the State in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
  11. 3 The Politics of Mobility in Mary Shelley’s Travelogues and Frankenstein
  12. 4 The Law, Fugitive Slavery,and Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno
  13. Epilogue
  14. Index