Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720–1810 : Migrant Fictions
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| Title: | Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720–1810 : Migrant Fictions |
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| Description: | Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons'and Americans'perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the'other'Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt. |
| Authors: | Eve Tavor Bannet |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Liberty in literature, Books and reading--History--18th century, Publishers and publishing--History--18th century, Adventure stories, English--History and criticism, American literature--Appreciation--Great Britain, English literature--Appreciation--United States, Comparative literature--American and English, Comparative literature--English and American |
| Categories: | FICTION / Short Stories (single author) |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons'and Americans'perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the'other'Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt. |
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| ISBN: | 9781107007468 9781139078795 |
