A Wish for Air and Liberty examines how upheaval and humanitarian crisis provoked literary authors to engage with emergent questions of citizenship and belonging. Playing on the double meaning of "revolution" as both rupture and rotation, this book uncovers how literature both serviced and subverted concepts of citizenship.
A Wish for Air and Liberty examines how upheaval and humanitarian crisis provoked literary authors to engage with emergent questions of citizenship and belonging. Playing on the double meaning of "revolution" as both rupture and rotation, this book uncovers how literature both serviced and subverted concepts of citizenship.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mitchell Gauvin is a Canadian scholar who focuses on the intersection between literature and citizenship. Focusing on both the contemporary period and the long eighteenth century, his research approaches citizenship from transnational, transhistorical, and postcolonial perspectives. He holds PhD from York University in Toronto and served as a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Linguistics at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz in Germany (2022-24).
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Where My Heart Had Always Been": Cosmopolitan Citizenship and Religious Community in Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative 1.1. "Feeling global": Equiano's Cosmopolitan, Sentimental, and Evangelical Politics 1.2. Citizenship in the Ecclesial World: Conversion, Imperialism, and Indigeneity 1.3. Antityrannism, Violent Revolution, and John Milton 2. Authority, Anti-Citizenship, and the State in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park 2.1. Authority, Paternalism, and Sexual Politics 2.2. Austen's Anti-Citizenship and "State Romanticism" 2.3. Slavery and Despotism in Mansfield Park 3. The Politics of Mobility in Mary Shelley's Travelogues and Frankenstein 3.1. Travel Restrictions and Passports in Shelley's Travelogues 3.2. Mobility in Frankenstein 3.3. Irregular Arrivals, Race, and Revolution 4. The Law, Fugitive Slavery, and Herman Melville's Benito Cereno 4.1. "Sight without Inisght": The Plot Aboard the San Dominick 4.2. Babo and the Legitimacy of Violence 4.3. The Fugitive Slave Epilogue Index
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Where My Heart Had Always Been": Cosmopolitan Citizenship and Religious Community in Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative 1.1. "Feeling global": Equiano's Cosmopolitan, Sentimental, and Evangelical Politics 1.2. Citizenship in the Ecclesial World: Conversion, Imperialism, and Indigeneity 1.3. Antityrannism, Violent Revolution, and John Milton 2. Authority, Anti-Citizenship, and the State in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park 2.1. Authority, Paternalism, and Sexual Politics 2.2. Austen's Anti-Citizenship and "State Romanticism" 2.3. Slavery and Despotism in Mansfield Park 3. The Politics of Mobility in Mary Shelley's Travelogues and Frankenstein 3.1. Travel Restrictions and Passports in Shelley's Travelogues 3.2. Mobility in Frankenstein 3.3. Irregular Arrivals, Race, and Revolution 4. The Law, Fugitive Slavery, and Herman Melville's Benito Cereno 4.1. "Sight without Inisght": The Plot Aboard the San Dominick 4.2. Babo and the Legitimacy of Violence 4.3. The Fugitive Slave Epilogue Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
