Migration and Modernities : : The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850 / / JoEllen DeLucia, Juliet Shields.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: DeLucia, JoEllen,; Shields, Juliet,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams-Campbell, Melissa,; Bolton, Betsy,; Caballero, M. Soledad,; Cove, Patricia,; DeLucia, JoEllen,; Gallien, Claire,; Grbic, Dragana,; Jokic, Olivera,; McNeil, Kenneth,; Shields, Juliet,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Recovers a comparative literary history of migrationThis collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.Key FeaturesOffers a comparative framework for understanding the modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobilityForegrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and citizenshipDemonstrates how mobility unsettles the national, cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize literary and historical studyBrings together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the emergence of modernityEmphasizes the globalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction: A Literary History of Migration, 1750–1850 -- I. Moving Voices: Competing Perspectives on Migration -- 1. Byron’s Ambivalent Modernity: Touring and Forced Migration in Don Juan -- 2. Diasporas: Thomas Pringle and Mary Prince -- 3. Transatlantic Masculinities: Military Leadership and Migration in the South American Wars of Independence -- 4. At Home on the Prairie? Black Hawk, Margaret Fuller, and American Indian Dispossession -- II. Migrants as Cultural Mediators: Epistemes and Aesthetics of Mobility -- 5. “An Alien to my Country”: Migration and Statelessness in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer -- 6. The Great Migration and Individual Travels: Precursors of Serbian Modernity? -- 7. Orientalism in Transit: Company Men, Colonial Historiography, and Other Handmaidens of Empire -- 8. The Turkish Refugee as Vagrant Slave: Spaces of Disconnection and Dispossession in Ishmael Bashaw’s Refugee Narrative -- Index