Romantic Migrations
Subtitle: Local, National, and Transnational Dispositions (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230604681
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: "Analyzing real, speculative, and imaginary schemes of migration to and from Britain, Romantic Migrations addresses three interrelated movements: between France and Britain after the French Revolution, between Britain and North America after the American Revolution, and between West Africa and Britain after English slavery was outlawed. At this time and within these spaces, radical changes destabilized Britons' sense of individual, local, and national selfhood. Wiley ably illuminates how the British literature of migration registered the destabilizations and negotiated new possibilities for international, transnational, or global selves in a new and still-changing world."--BOOK JACKET.