Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850 - Softcover

JoEllen DeLucia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474440355 ISBN 13: 9781474440356

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

This collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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About the Author

JoEllen DeLucia is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of Women and Gender Studies at Central Michigan University. She has also published essays on women's writing, travel literature, Romantic-era literature, and Enlightenment thought. Juliet Shields is Associate Professor at the University of Washington, where she teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature. She is author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820 and Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835. She has published essays on Scottish migration in ELH and European Romantic Review, and she is currently working on a book on Scottish women's writing titled "The Romance of Everyday Life."

From the Back Cover

Recovers a comparative literary history of migration This 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. JoEllen DeLucia is Associate Professor of English at Central Michigan University. Juliet Shields is Professor of English at the University of Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474440355
• ISBN 13: 9781474440356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: JoEllen DeLucia, Juliet Shields