|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
|
Buy Now
Literature in a Time of Migration - British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815-1876 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,672
Discovery Miles 26 720
|
|
|
Literature in a Time of Migration - British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815-1876 (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Literature in a Time of Migration offers a profound rethinking of
British fiction in light of the new practices of human mobility
that reshaped the nineteenth-century world. Building on the growing
critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, it
confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human
movement occurred globally on an unprecedented scale, British
fiction appeared to turn inward to tell stories of local places
that valorized stability and rootedness. In contrast, this book
reveals how literary works, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to
the advent of the New Imperialism, were active components of a
culture of colonization and emigration. Fictional texts, as print
commodities, were enmeshed in technologies of transport and
communication, and innovations in literary form were spurred by the
conditions and consequences of human movement. Examining works by
Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, and George Eliot, as well as
popular contemporaries, Mary Russell Mitford, John Galt, and Thomas
Martin Wheeler, this volume demonstrates how literary texts overlap
with an agenda set in public discussions of colonial emigration
that they also helped to shape. Debates about assisted emigration,
'forced' and 'free' migration, colonization, settlement, and the
removal of native peoples, figure in fictions in complex ways. Read
alongside writings by emigration theorists, practitioners, and
enthusiasts for colonization, fictional texts reveal a powerful and
sustained engagement with British migratory practices and their
worldwide consequences. Literature in a Time of Migration is a
timely reminder of the place and importance of migration within
British cultural heritage.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
