Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures – serie
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Emily Dickinson and Her British Contemporaries
Victorian Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2030
1062 kr
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Re-reads Emily Dickinson's works in terms of a nineteenth-century transatlantic culture and British poetic tradition.
Literature, Art and Slavery
Ekphrastic Visions
Av Carl Plasa
Inbunden, 2023
1343 kr
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Examines a range of literary responses to images drawn from the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermathA focus on texts that (with the obvious exception of David Dabydeen's 'Turner' [1994]) exist at the critical and canonical marginAn emphasis on Black Atlantic writers, designed to counter the …
Literature, Art and Slavery
Ekphrastic Visions
Av Carl Plasa
Häftad, 2025
687 kr
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Since around 2000, there has been a noticeable upsurge in critical work on the visual archive of Atlantic slavery, resulting in a host of important studies. While most of these contributions are weighted towards images created during the era of slavery itself, some critics have adopted a more …
Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865–1930
Inbunden, 2023
1423 kr
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Traces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commoditiesPairs global economic histories with close readings of commodities depicted in fiction in order to shed new light on the strategies that both well-known and under-studied …
Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865–1930
Häftad, 2025
594 kr
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What is a reference to an Italian Egyptologist doing in Louisa May Alcott's portrait of domesticity Little Women? Why does Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's painter protagonist Avis Dobell know--and care--that her red shawl is dyed with desiccated beetles? Why might W.E.B. Du Bois's fictional sharecropper …
Derek Walcott’s Painters
A Life with Pictures
Inbunden, 2023
3693 kr
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First book devoted to Derek Walcott's lifelong engagement with the Atlantic visual artsBringing together local, Atlantic and global dimensions and putting in dialogue and contextualising Walcott's work with the works of specific artists, it retraces Walcott's unique, empowering, but utterly …
Derek Walcott’s Painters
A Life with Pictures
Häftad, 2025
762 kr
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Walcott's lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott's interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an art history "of …
Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894
Inbunden, 2024
2270 kr
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At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, Louis Kirk McAuley invites us to consider the ways in which particular unruly natures, including animals, plants and minerals, actively intervene in literature to decentre the human. …
Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894
Häftad, 2025
352 kr
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At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, Louis Kirk McAuley invites us to consider the ways in which particular unruly natures, including animals, plants and minerals, actively intervene in literature to decentre the human. …
Sensational Internationalism
The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2016
1531 kr
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Remaps the borders of transatlantic feeling and resituates the role of international memory in U.S. culture in the long nineteenth century and beyondIn refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes …
Sensational Internationalism
The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2018
404 kr
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WINNER of the 2017 Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize. Remaps the borders of transatlantic feeling and resituates the role of international memory in U.S. culture in the long nineteenth century and beyond.In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and …
American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824–62
Inbunden, 2018
2344 kr
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Examines tourists' aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formation'American Travel Literature' analyses US tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response, and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United …
American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824–62
Häftad, 2019
751 kr
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Examines tourists’ aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formationAmerican Travel Literature analyses tourist writings about Italy from 1824 to 1862 to explain what roles transatlantic travel, aesthetic response and the genre of tourist writing played in the formation of the United …
Atlantic Dilemma
Reform or Revolution Across the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Kelvin Black
Inbunden, 2029
1062 kr
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Scottish Colonial Literature
Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707
Inbunden, 2021
1498 kr
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This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature …
Scottish Colonial Literature
Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707
Häftad, 2023
594 kr
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Brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial writing before the Union of ParliamentsOffers the first comprehensive study of Scottish colonial literature before 1707Focus on Scotland contributes to the diversification of studies on the early British …
American Snobs
Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition
Av Emily Coit
Inbunden, 2021
2183 kr
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Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University, this book shows how each of …
American Snobs
Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition
Av Emily Coit
Häftad, 2022
687 kr
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Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Brings together the insights of recent Victorianist and Americanist scholarship in order to show how Adams, James, and Wharton engage with liberal thinking about whiteness, democracy, and citizenship.Locates these …
Yankee Yarns
Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Inbunden, 2021
1572 kr
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In this book, Stefanie Schäfer provides the first study of the Yankee’s many facets. Reading together Yankee Doodle, Brother Jonathan, Uncle Sam, the Yankee Peddler and the Down Easter, she highlights the Yankee’s ambiguity: His performance hinges on storytelling and fraudulence. An invention of …
Yankee Yarns
Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Häftad, 2023
711 kr
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A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and cultureYankee Yarns provides the first systematic study of the Yankee's formation in 19th century US cultureCritiques US national historiographies by revealing an indulgence in storytelling, …
Reverberations of Revolution
Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
Av Elizabeth Amann, Michael Boyden
Inbunden, 2021
1371 kr
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A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of RevolutionsCutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book explores the dissemination and transformation of revolutionary ideas in the period between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. In addition to …
Reverberations of Revolution
Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
Av Elizabeth Amann, Michael Boyden
Häftad, 2023
594 kr
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A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of RevolutionsPluralist and multilingual perspectives on the Age of RevolutionsFocus on how revolutionary ideas are transformed and distorted as they cross bordersInnovative approaches drawn from translation studies, conceptual history, …
