Traffic in Poems
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19th-century literature
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abolitionist
American
American studies
asymmetrical
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British
canon
Caribbean
cast-off
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citizenship
cross-cultural
crossing
cultural competition
diaspora studies
Emma Lazarus
envy
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Europe
exile
fantasies
fascination
Felicia Hemans
geopolitical
George Meredith
Hiawatha
immigration
influence
literary
Literary studies
Mary Webb
Meredith L McGill
mutual
myth
national
national identity
networks
nineteenth-century
performances
piracy
Plymouth Rock
poetry
populations
racial dynamics
recognition
reprints
rivalry
Robert Browning
slavery
traditions
traffic
transatlantic
Product details
- ISBN 9780813542300
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2008
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The transatlantic crossing of people and goods shaped nineteenth-century poetry in surprising ways that cannot be fully understood through the study of separate national literary traditions. American and British poetic cultures were bound by fascination, envy, influence, rivalry, recognition, and piracy, as well as by mutual fantasies about and competition over the Caribbean.
Drawing on examples such as Felicia Hemans's elaboration of the foundational American myth of Plymouth Rock, Emma Lazarus's ambivalent welcome of Europe's cast-off populations, black abolitionist Mary Webb's European performances of Hiawatha, and American reprints of Robert Browning and George Meredith, the eleven essays in this book focus on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explore the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures.
Drawing on examples such as Felicia Hemans's elaboration of the foundational American myth of Plymouth Rock, Emma Lazarus's ambivalent welcome of Europe's cast-off populations, black abolitionist Mary Webb's European performances of Hiawatha, and American reprints of Robert Browning and George Meredith, the eleven essays in this book focus on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explore the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures.
Meredith L. McGill is a professor of English at Rutgers University.
