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Hospitality and the transatlantic imagination, 1815-1835

Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the...

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Main Authors: Schoolar Williams, Cynthia.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: The new urban Atlantic
Subjects:
Hospitality in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Literature and society > History > 19th century > Great Britain.
Literature and society > History > 19th century > United States.
English literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
American literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > English.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137340054
Summary: Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself.
"We do not know what hospitality is,' Jacques Derrida once said. Yet, in Cynthia Schoolar Williams' competent hands, this non-knowledge proves to be exceptionally generative. Succinct and intellectually agile, her book traces the frisson of threshold experiences activating and connecting the work of a range of Romantic writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Through a series of intelligent readings, Williams demonstrates that thresholds are wholly fraught spaces, at once scenes of alienation, intimacy, and possibility. Her book explores what it means hospitably to encounter a stranger and to be encountered as a stranger-including a stranger to oneself. She gives us a robust language with which to consider the fierce vicissitudes of nineteenth-century forms of welcoming and belonging in whose wake we continue to struggle." - David L. Clark, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Canada.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137340047.
Carrier Form: 244 p.
ISBN: 9781137340054 :
1137340053 :
CLC: I561.064
Contents: 1. Keeping Hospitality 2. Mary Shelley at the Threshold: Displacement and Form in Lodore 3. A Sailor's Welcome: James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot and Hospitality in the Coastal Zone 4. Washington Irving and the Citizen as Guest 5. England as Centrifuge: Felicia Hemans and the Threshold Foreclosed.

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