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 betwee...

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