Book · January 1, 2023
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. ...
Full textCite
Chapter · January 1, 2023
What happens when we shift our attention from the progress of history to the movement of actual people? This is the question we set ourselves in 2017, when we, along with several colleagues at Duke University, convened a humanities lab entitled Representin ...
Full textCite
Chapter · January 1, 2023
The chapters in this section pose two complementary questions: How are migrants represented in literature and culture? And how do migrants themselves transform conventional forms of figuration by representing their own experiences? In other words, the chap ...
Full textCite
Chapter · January 1, 2023
This chapter focuses on three volumes of poetry published in English between 2014 and 2016 that take up the crisis of migration in the Mediterranean in the second decade of the twenty-first century: They Who Saw the Deep, by Geraldine Monk; Drift, by Carol ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleMarine Policy · December 1, 2020
More than 12.5 million Africans were held captive on 40,000+ voyages during the transatlantic slave trade. Many did not survive the voyage and the Atlantic seabed became their final resting place. Exploration for mineral resources on the international seab ...
Full textOpen AccessCite
Journal ArticleModern Philology · November 1, 2020
The name Dido means wanderer. Her story is one of wandering, and her story has itself wandered through the Western literary tradition, assuming a variety of forms. Those wanderings are the subject of this article, which considers them both as a lens throug ...
Full textCite
Book · April 24, 2020
By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. ...
Cite
Chapter · January 1, 2018
This essay historicizes the concept of “freedom of movement” in the context of the late eighteenth-century desire to distinguish the free movement of emigrants from the coerced movement of slaves. It explores the distinction between free and unfree mobilit ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNineteenth-Century Literature · March 1, 2011
Why are there no children in the poems that Felicia Hemans wrote about the New World in the 1820s? Despite the longstanding representation of the Americas as a place where British culture might be renewed and reproduced, Hemans's poems depict it as a place ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticleNovel · March 1, 2010
This essay argues that the problem of witnessing in the Romantic-era novel is caught up with the problem of moral epistemology and that both are inflected by temporality. Focusing on Charles Maturin's 1820 gothic Melmoth the Wanderer, this essay argues tha ...
Full textCite
Chapter · January 1, 2010
Although it is less often remarked upon than the other revolutions of the Romantic era, an epoch-making event occurred in the British literary field at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth: the novel quantifiably became the ...
Full textCite
Book · January 1, 2010
Despite their diversity of approaches, the essays in this volume challenge us to rethink our ideas of the novel as a genre, and of the literary movement known as Romanticism. They propose that the Romantic-era novel was characterized by a fierce concern wi ...
Full textCite
Book · January 1, 2010
The British Romantic era was a vibrant and exciting time in the history of the novel. Yet, aside from a few iconic books Pride and Prejudice, Frankensteinit has been ignored or dismissed by later readers and critics. Bringing this rich but neglected body ...
Full textCite
Journal ArticlePMLA · January 1, 2003
The Last Man, Mary Shelley's novel of 1826, describes the extinction of humanity by a plague that leaves only one man alive. The plague exerts pressure on the idea of national community by forcing a reevaluation of the number of people needed to continue a ...
Full textCite
