Nation and migration : the making of British Atlantic literature, 1765-1835 /

Nation and migration : the making of British Atlantic literature, 1765-1835 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shields, Juliet, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
1775 - 1850
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
British > United States.
Irish > United States.
Scots > United States.
Welsh > United States.
American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
American literature.
American literature > Revolutionary period (United States)
British.
Irish.
Scots.
Welsh.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Decentering transatlantic literary studies
  • From English empire to British Atlantic world
  • The Irish uncanny and the American gothic
  • Scots and Scott in the early republic
  • Wales and the American West
  • The literary sketch and British Atlantic regionalism
  • Conclusion: British Atlantic worlds: Anglo-American, colonial, and archipelagic.