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The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange
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The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange Paperback - 2008

by Meredith L. McGill

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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.

Details

  • Title The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange
  • Author Meredith L. McGill
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press, -
  • Date February 28, 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780813542300 / 0813542308
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.33 x 0.7 in (23.44 x 16.08 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature, Comparative - American and, Literature, Comparative - English and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007012716
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.809

About the author

Meredith L. McGill is a professor of English at Rutgers University.

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