Title: Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810
Description: "Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt"--
Subjects: English literature, Description and travel, Appreciation, Publishers and publishing, History and criticism, American literature, English Adventure stories, Books and reading, American and English, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Liberty in literature, Comparative literature, In literature, English and American, History, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Slavery in literature, Women in literature, Books and reading, history
Places: United States, Atlantic Ocean Region, Great Britain
Time periods: 18th century