Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Eckel, Leslie; Elliott, Clare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

New and original collection of scholarly essays examining the literary complexities of the Atlantic world systemThis 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 the area. The essays focus on literature and culture from first contact to the present, exploring fruitful Atlantic connections across space and time, across national cultures, and embracing literature, culture and society. This research collection proposes that the analysis of literature and culture does not depend solely upon geographical setting to uncover textual meaning. Instead, it offers Atlantic connections based around migration, race, gender and sexuality, ecologies, and other significant ideological crossovers in the Atlantic World. The result is an exciting new critical map written by leading international researchers of a lively and expanding field. Key FeaturesOffers an introduction to the growing field of Atlantic literary studies by showcasing current work engaged in debate around historical, cultural and literary issues in the Atlantic WorldIncludes 26 newly-commissioned scholarly essays by leading experts in Atlantic literary studiesFuses breadth of historical knowledge with depth of literary scholarshipConsiders the full range of intercultural encounters around and across the Atlantic Ocean

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474418287
• Artikelnr.: 50403166

Autorenporträt

Leslie Elizabeth Eckel is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston. She is the author of Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World (2013). Her essays have appeared in books and journals such as Atlantic Studies, Transatlantica, Common-place, Arizona Quarterly, and ESQ. Her current book project, "Dwelling in Possibility: Atlantic Utopias and Countercultures," explores the linguistic networks of utopian writing in the long nineteenth century. Clare Frances Elliott is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is interested in transatlantic literary connections in the long nineteenth century and is the co-editor with Michael Patrick Cullinane of International Perspectives on Presidential Leadership (2014) and (with Andrew Hook) of Francis Jeffrey's American Journal: New York to Washington 1813 (2011). She is completing a monograph on William Blake's reception in the US.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Leslie Elizabeth Eckel and Clare Frances Elliott; Introduction: The New Atlantic Literary Studies
Paul Giles; Part I: Atlantic Cultural Geographies; 1. The Silkworm and the Bee: Georgia
Cognitive Mapping
and the Atlantic Labour System in Boltzius and Thomson
Leonard von Morzé; 2. From Auburn to Upper Canada: Pastoral and Georgic Villages in the British Atlantic World
Juliet Shields; 3. London's Pan-Atlantic Public Sphere: Luso-Hispanic Journals 1808-1830
Joselyn M. Almeida; 4. Emerson's Atlantic States
Christopher Hanlon; Part II: Atlantic Mobilities; 5. Shifting Cultures and Transatlantic Imitations: The Case of Burney
Bennett
and Read
Eve Tavor Bannet; 6. 'We are where we are': Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn
Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment
Sinéad Moynihan; 7. Contemporary Atlantic Literature and the Unhappiness of Travel
Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson; Part 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
Susan Castillo Street; 9. Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany's and Frederick Douglass's Countercultural Atlantic
Leslie Elizabeth Eckel; 10. Black Diaspora Literature and the Question of Slavery
Yogita Goyal; Part IV: Atlantic Genders and Sexualities; 11. The Early Modern Queer Atlantic: Narratives of Sex and Gender on New World Soil
Jennifer Frangos; 12. 'Local locas': Trans-Antillean Queerness in Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena
Ivonne M. García; 13. Queer Atlantic Modernism and Masculinity in Claude McKay's Banjo and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night
Daniel Hannah; Part V: Reform and Revolution; 14. Urban Reform
Transatlantic Movements
and US Writers: 1837-1861
Brigitte Bailey; 15. Early Feminism and the Circulation of Self-Reliance in the Atlantic World
Clare Frances Elliott; 16. Suffragette Celebrity at Home from Abroad: Feminist Periodicals and Transatlantic Circulation
Barbara Green; Part VI: Atlantic Exchanges; 17. An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the Origins of United States Literature
David Greenham; 18. Frances Hodgson Burnett and the 'American Girl' in England
Sarah Wagner-McCoy; 19. Music
Language
and (Latin) American Grains: William Carlos Williams' Voyage to Pagany and 'The Desert Music'
Daniel Katz; Part VII: Atlantic Ecologies; 20. 'Calcutta still haunts my Fancy
' or
the Confusion of Old and New World Ecologies in Early Caribbean Literature
Kirk McAuley; 21. 'More Savage Than Bears or Wolves': Animals
Colonialism
and the Aboriginal Atlantic
Kevin Hutchings; 22. Reading the 'Book of Nature': Emerson
the Hunterian Museum
and Transatlantic Science
Samantha Harvey; 23. Transatlantic Magazines and the Rise of Environmental Journalism
Susan Oliver; Part VIII: Atlantic Events; 24. Sputniks
Ice-Picks
G.P.U.: Nabokov's Pale Fire
Adam Piette; 25. 'O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag': Bob Dylan
The Beatles and T. S. Eliot's Transatlantic Encounters
Christopher Gair; 26. Unbridgeable Gaps: Time
Space and Memory in the Post-9/11 Novel
Catherine Morley; Selected Bibliography.