Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835

by Juliet Shields

Book Overview

Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United States and England. By allowing England to stand in for the British archipelago, Juliet Shields argues, recent literary scholarship has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190272554
• ISBN13: 9780190272555
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"