Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810 : migrant fictions

Publication Data

• Title Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810 : migrant fictions
• Author Eve Tavor Bannet
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: transatlantic stories and transatlantic readers
Part I. 'Poor Man's Country': 1. Strange adventures; 2. Captivity and antislavery; 3. The parallel Atlantic economy; 4. Fortune's footballs
Part II. The Servant's Tale: 5. The bonds of servitude; 6. Bond and free: contemporary readings of Gronniosaw's Life; 7. Samson Occom's itinerancies
Part III. Printscapes: 8. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war on politeness; 9. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war upon war.

Topics

• English literature :: Appreciation :: United States
• American literature :: Appreciation :: Great Britain
• Comparative literature :: English and American
• Comparative literature :: American and English
• Books and reading :: History :: 18th century
• Liberty in literature
• Publishers and publishing :: History :: 18th century
• Adventure stories, English :: History and criticism
• Atlantic Ocean Region :: In literature
• Atlantic Ocean Region :: Description and travel :: History
• Atlantic Ocean Region

Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810 : migrant fictions by Eve Tavor Bannet. ISBN 9781107007468. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.