Title: Romantic Migrations
First published: April 1, 2008
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.
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, Emigration and immigration in literature, Self in literature, National characteristics in literature, Romanticism, great britain, Great britain, emigration and immigration, France, emigration and immigration, Great britain, history, 18th century, France, history, 18th century, English literature, History and criticism, Transnationalism in literature, Romanticism, Emigration and immigration, History, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature, Literatur, Migration (Motiv)