Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850 : Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture

Omtale

This book contributes to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. It identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities can engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery, natural knowledge, democracy, and religion. Taking a fresh look at canonical and popular writers, it considers the ways in which material texts and genres, including the essay, guidebook, travel narrative, periodical, novel, and the poem, can be scrutinized in relation to historically-situated transatlantic transitions, transformations, and border crossings.