Title: Transatlantic literary studies, 1660-1830
Description: "The recently developed field of transatlantic literary studies has encouraged scholars to move beyond national literatures towards an examination of communications between Britain and the Americas. The true extent and importance of these material and literary exchanges is only just beginning to be discovered. This collection of original essays explores the transatlantic literary imagination during the key period from 1660 to 1830: from the colonization of the Americas to the formative decades following political separation between the nations. Contributions from leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic bring a variety of approaches and methods to bear on both familiar and undiscovered texts. Revealing how literary genres were borrowed and readapted to a different context, the volume offers an index of the larger literary influences going backwards and forwards across the ocean"--
Subjects: American and English, Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Comparative literature, History and criticism, English and American, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, American literature, history and criticism, Comparative literature, american and english