Gebundenes Buch

Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920

An Anthology

Herausgeber: Hughes, Linda K; Taylor, Andrew; Robbins, Sarah Ruffing

Beschreibung

The first anthology to bring together Anglophone transatlantic writing across the period of the long nineteenth century This anthology provides a single, convenient volume of diverse primary texts supporting the teaching and research field of Anglophone Transatlantic literatures and print culture. Focusing on ongoing and shared concerns and social practices across the long nineteenth century, the book's thematically-organised sections mark major Transatlantic social movements of that era as expressed, negotiated, and recorded through literary production. The anthology offers a range of tools and texts for innovative thinking, teaching, and exploration. Headnotes provide guidance on how individual selections arose from social and historical contexts. Annotations create student-friendly identification of key terms or allusions. Key Features: - Includes a diverse range of Anglophone primary texts from across the Atlantic basin - Presents textual headnotes to contextualise the primary material - Provides ten introductions to guide students through the different thematic sections of the Anthology - Offers diverse approaches for use as a core text in classroom teaching - Allows students to navigate their way through a wide range of writing from both familiar and less well-known authors Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU. Sarah R. Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU. Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Adam Nemmers is an Assistant Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Heidi Hakimi-Hood is Associate Director of International Student Services and the Intensive English Language Institute at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Autor

Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU, specialises in historical media studies (poetry, periodicals, serial fiction); gender and women's studies; and transnationality including transatlanticism. With Sarah R. Robbins she is co-editor of Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and with Julie Codell co-editor of Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Her monographs include The Victorian Serial (with Michael Lund, 1991), The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010) and Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity (2022). Sarah Ruffing Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU. Her nine academic books include Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching (2017), the award-winning Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola, 1905-1913 (2011) and Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Henry James and the Father Question (2002), Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Experience (2010), co-author of Thomas Pynchon (2013) and co-editor of If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection (EUP, 2018). He co-edits the book series Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. Adam Nemmers is an Assistant Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he teaches courses in American literature. His research focuses on modernism and multi-ethnic American literature, including recent essays and articles on Passing, Richard Wright, Faulkner, and radio drama. His forthcoming published work will include essays and articles on American protest literature, Southern matriarchy, and the Midwestern Ecogothic, in addition to a monograph on the American Modern(ist) Epic (Clemson University Press, 2021). He is currently at work on a book project about transcolonial American literature. Heidi Hakimi-Hood is Associate Director of International Student Services and the Intensive English Language Institute at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where she teaches English Language Learners. Her research interests include long nineteenth century British, Iberian, and Latin American Literatures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 808
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1474g
• ISBN-13: 9781474429825
• ISBN-10: 1474429823
• Artikelnr.: 59986580