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Author:

Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1947-

Title:

Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810 : migrant fictions / Eve Tavor Bannet.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

ix, 295 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Appreciation--United States.
American literature--Appreciation--Great Britain.
Atlantic Ocean Region--In literature.
Comparative literature--English and American.
Comparative literature--American and English.
Books and reading--History--18th century.
Liberty in literature.
Publishers and publishing--History--18th century.
Adventure stories, English--History and criticism.
Atlantic Ocean Region--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-291) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: transatlantic stories and transatlantic readers -- Part I. 'Poor Man's Country': 1. Strange adventures; 2. Captivity and antislavery; 3. The parallel Atlantic economy; 4. Fortune's footballs -- Part II. The Servant's Tale: 5. The bonds of servitude; 6. Bond and free: contemporary readings of Gronniosaw's Life; 7. Samson Occom's itinerancies -- Part III. Printscapes: 8. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war on politeness; 9. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war upon war.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1107007461
9781107007468

OCLC:

(OCoLC)698331465

LCCN:

2011002468

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)