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The materials of exchange between Britain and north east America, 1750-1900 /edited by Daniel Maudlin, University of Plymouth, UK, and Robin Peel, University of Plymouth, UK.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-307975

Description

xi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

American literature History and criticism. 19th century
English literature History and criticism. 19th century
American literature English influences.
Comparative literature American and English.
Comparative literature English and American.
Literature and society History 19th century.
Popular culture History 19th century.
American literature.
English literature.
Literature and society.
Popular culture.
Kulturaustausch.

Originator

Maudlin, Daniel, editor of compilation.
Peel, Robin, editor of compilation.

Contents

Introduction / Daniel Maudlin -- Transatlanticism, Past, Present and Future: A Brief Overview / Paul Giles -- Pt. 1. Books and ideas -- Bloodlines and Abortions: Heredity and Childhood in Hawthorne / Maeve Pearson / Transatlantic Mobility: European Pleasure Meets American Ambivalence in Henry James's The Europeans / AnaMaria Seglie -- Double Crossings: Black Yankees, Pauline Hopkins and the Atlantic World / Laura Doyle -- Bound for Boston: the significance of New England as the point of entry for visitors from Britain / Adam Hallett -- That Eternal Ghost of Trade: Anglo-American Market Culture and the Antebellum Stage Yankee / Matthew Pethers -- Pt. 2. Goods and things -- Over a Century of Shipwrecks: American Child Readers and Robinson Crusoe / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- Chairs, Cradles, Cupboards and Dykes: the "Scottishness" in the furniture of New England / David Jones -- Visualising Thanksgiving and other colonial entanglements in New England / Stephanie Pratt -- The Most Marvellous of Foreign Countries: Americans and the construction of the English Idea of Home, 1870-1910 / Tanis Hinchcliffe -- Domestic Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom in Old and New England / Gretchen Gerzina.

Publisher Series

Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies.

Description

xi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.

ISBN

9781409462439 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1409462439 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1409462447
9781409462446
1409462455
9781409462453

Call Number

Stacks PS159.E5 M38 2013

Places

New England
Great Britain
Great Britain.
New England.
GroÇbritannien.
Amerika

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