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Author:

Benis, Toby R., 1963-

Title:

Romantic diasporas : French ©♭migr©♭s, British convicts, and Jews / Toby R. Benis.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

194 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Exiles in literature
French--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Jews--Great Britain--History--19th century.
British--Australia--History--19th century.
Emigration and immigration in literature
Jewish diaspora in literature.
National characteristics, British, in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Boundless, yet distinct" : the ©♭migr©♭ experience and the 1790s -- The French connection in Frances Burney and Mary Shelley -- Beyond the convict taint : George Barrington and the colonial cure -- The Scottish martyrs and the reform of narrative -- Edgeworth and the Jews : diaspora and political control.

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

ISBN:

023061065X (alk. paper)
9780230610651 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226357052

LCCN:

2008045139

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)