Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1810: Migrant Fictions
Eve Tavor Bannet
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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Year:
2011
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
306
ISBN 10:
1107007461
ISBN 13:
9781107007468
File:
PDF, 1.95 MB
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english, 2011