Recovers a comparative literary history of migration This collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences -- real or imagined -- of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative. Key Features Offers a comparative framework for understanding the modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobility Foregrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship Demonstrates how mobility unsettles the national, cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize literary and historical study Brings together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the emergence of modernity Emphasizes the globalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Recovers a comparative literary history of migration This collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences -- real or imagined -- of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative. Key Features Offers a comparative framework for understanding the modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobility Foregrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship Demonstrates how mobility unsettles the national, cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize literary and historical study Brings together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the emergence of modernity Emphasizes the globalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the 18th century and Romantic era, JoEllen DeLucia challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. Beginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), she tracks discussions of women's progress from the rarified atmosphere of mid- 18th-century Bluestocking salons and the masculine domain of the Scottish university system to the popular Minerva Press novels of the early 19th century. Ultimately, this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress. The effect of this study is twofold: to show how developments in women's literature reflected and engaged with Enlightenment discussions of emotion, sentiment, and commercial and imperial expansion and to provide new literary and historical contexts for contemporary conversations that continue to use "women's progress" to assign cultures and societies around the globe a place in universalising schemas of development.