Eve Tavor Bannet

Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660–1830 Eve Tavor Bannet

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2012.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; A volume of original essays in which leading experts address transatlantic literary exchanges in the formative period, 1640-1830, this book uses different approaches to genre to offer both a state-of-the-art snapshot of existing scholarship and a comprehensive introduction to its future possibilities for students and scholars. Review Quotes: "The collection s answers are rich and varied, and the essayists themselves a transatlantic assembly convince that national labels are contingent, as is transatlanticism itself." --Journal of American History"Table of Contents: Introduction Eve Tavor Bannet and Susan Manning; 1. Transatlantic books and literary culture Richard Sher; 2. Transatlantic Utopianism and the writing of America Wil Verhoeven; 3. Tales of wonder, spiritual autobiographies and providence tales Jim Egan; 4. Life writings Susan Imbarrato; 5. Benjamin Franklin and transatlantic literary journalism Carla Mulford; 6. Theatre, drama, performance Jeffrey Richards; 7. Transatlantic American Indians Tim Fulford; 8. Literature of the ocean Janet Sorensen; 9. 'To gird this watery globe': Freneau, Barlow and American neoclassical poetry Paul Giles; 10. Ghostly and vernacular presences in the Black Atlantic Alan Rice; 11. Susanna Rowson and the transatlantic captivity narrative Lise Sorensen; 12. Domestic fiction and the reprint trade Eve Tavor Bannet; 13. Transatlantic Gothic Robert Miles; 14. Transatlantic Romanticisms Colleen Glenney Boggs; 15. Journeys of the imagination in Wheatley and Coleridge Joel Pace; 16. Transatlantic historical fiction Susan Manning; Further reading; Index. Publisher Marketing: A volume of original essays in which leading experts address transatlantic literary exchanges in the formative period, 1640-1830, this book uses different approaches to genre to offer both a state-of-the-art snapshot of existing scholarship and a comprehensive introduction to its future possibilities for students and scholars.

Contributor Bio:  Bannet, Eve Tavor Eve Tavor Bannet is George Lynn Cross Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her books include Empire of Letters: Letter Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1680 1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2005); The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel (2000); a four-volume edition of British and American Letter Manuals, 1680 1810 (2008) and Transatlantic Literary Studies, a collection of essays by British, American and Canadian scholars (co-edited with Susan Manning, Cambridge University Press, 2011). Contributor Bio:  Manning, Susan Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.