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Transatlantic traffic and (mis)translations
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- Summary
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Explores literary and ideological cultural exchanges between Britain and New England from 1610 to 1910 through studies of performance, the novel, expository writing, and early films.
Details
- Creator
- Robin Peel and Daniel Maudlin, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Durham : University of New Hampshire Press, ©2013
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 235 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781611684148, 1611684145, 9781611684247, 9781611684292, 1611684242, 1611684293
- OCLC
- ocn847010091
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword : Transatlantic traffic 1610-1910 / Susan Castillo Street -- Prologue : Nineteenth-century transatlantic (mis)understandings / Lawrence Buell -- Monstrosities and curiosities. Curiosities of the New World and John Winthrop Jr.'s epistolary visits to the Royal Society / Kathryn Napier Gray ; The transatlantic larynx in wartime : John Gough's London voices / Tom F. Wright ; The monstros transatlantic witchcraft narrative : Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch / Louisa Jayne Foster -- Translations, conversions, and rewritings. The reformation of their disordered lives : portraying cultural adaptation in the seventeenth-century praying Indian towns / Alison Stanley ; The toast of heroes and fair Albion's son : Jonathan Mitchell Sewell's Ossianic versifications / Dafydd Moore ; Walt Whitman and William Blake : the prophet-artist and democratic thought / Linda Freedman -- Transatlantic traffic and performances. Prophecy and geography in Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations" " a transatlantic reading / Edward Holberton ; Coloniality, performance, translation : the embodied public sphere in early America / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon ; Literature of attractions : Jack London and early moving images / Owen Clayton