| Description |
1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-289) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Strange adventures -- 2. Captivity and antislavery -- 3. The parallel Atlantic economy -- 4. Fortune's footballs -- 5. The bonds of servitude -- 6. Bond and free: contemporary readings of Gronniosaw's Life -- 7. Samson Occom's itinerancies -- 8. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war on politeness -- 9. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war upon war. |
| Summary |
"Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Appreciation -- United States.
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English literature -- Appreciation. |
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United States. |
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American literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
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American literature -- Appreciation. |
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Great Britain. |
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Atlantic Ocean Region -- In literature.
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Atlantic Ocean Region. |
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Comparative literature -- English and American.
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Comparative literature -- English and American. |
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Comparative literature -- American and English.
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Comparative literature -- American and English. |
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Books and reading -- History -- 18th century.
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Books and reading. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Liberty in literature.
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Liberty in literature. |
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Publishers and publishing -- History -- 18th century.
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Publishers and publishing. |
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Adventure stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Adventure stories, English. |
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Atlantic Ocean Region -- Description and travel -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1947- Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107007468 (DLC) 2011002468 (OCoLC)698331465 |
| ISBN |
9781139078795 (electronic book) |
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1139078798 (electronic book) |
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1283112833 |
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9781283112833 |
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9781107007468 |
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1107007461 |
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9781139081061 |
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1139081063 |
| Standard No. |
9786613112835 |
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