Transatlantic Traffic and (Mis)Translations.

By: Peel, RobinContributor(s): Maudlin, DanielMaterial type: TextTextSeries: New England in the WorldPublisher: Durham : University of New Hampshire Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781611684148Subject(s): American literature -- English influences | Comparative literature -- American and English | Comparative literature -- English and American | Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History | Literature and history -- New England -- History | National characteristics, English, in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transatlantic Traffic and (Mis)TranslationsDDC classification: 810.9 LOC classification: PS159.E5 -- T73 2013ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Transatlantic Traffic 1610-1910 -- Editors' Introduction -- Prologue: Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic (Mis)Understandings -- Part One: Monstrosities and Curiosities -- Chapter One: Curiosities of the New World and John Winthrop Jr.'s Epistolary Visits to the Royal Society -- Chapter Two: The Transatlantic Larynx in Wartime: John Gough's London Voices -- Chapter Three: The Monstrous Transatlantic Witchcraft Narrative: Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the Witch -- Part Two: Translations, Conversions, and Rewritings -- Chapter Four: The Reformation of Their Disordered Lives: Portraying Cultural Adaptation in the Seventeenth-century Praying Indian Towns -- Chapter Five: The Toast of Heroes and Fair Albion's Son: Jonathan Mitchell Sewell's Ossianic Versifications -- Chapter Six: Walt Whitman and William Blake: The Prophet-Artist and Democratic Thought -- Part Three: Transatlantic Traffic and Performances -- Chapter Seven: Prophecy and Geography in Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations": A Transatlantic Reading -- Chapter Eight: Coloniality, Performance, Translation: The Embodied Public Sphere in Early America -- Chapter Nine: Literature of Attractions: Jack London and Early Moving Images -- List of Editors and Contributors -- Index.
Summary: A collection problematizing American and British intellectual transactions.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Transatlantic Traffic 1610-1910 -- Editors' Introduction -- Prologue: Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic (Mis)Understandings -- Part One: Monstrosities and Curiosities -- Chapter One: Curiosities of the New World and John Winthrop Jr.'s Epistolary Visits to the Royal Society -- Chapter Two: The Transatlantic Larynx in Wartime: John Gough's London Voices -- Chapter Three: The Monstrous Transatlantic Witchcraft Narrative: Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the Witch -- Part Two: Translations, Conversions, and Rewritings -- Chapter Four: The Reformation of Their Disordered Lives: Portraying Cultural Adaptation in the Seventeenth-century Praying Indian Towns -- Chapter Five: The Toast of Heroes and Fair Albion's Son: Jonathan Mitchell Sewell's Ossianic Versifications -- Chapter Six: Walt Whitman and William Blake: The Prophet-Artist and Democratic Thought -- Part Three: Transatlantic Traffic and Performances -- Chapter Seven: Prophecy and Geography in Anne Bradstreet's "Contemplations": A Transatlantic Reading -- Chapter Eight: Coloniality, Performance, Translation: The Embodied Public Sphere in Early America -- Chapter Nine: Literature of Attractions: Jack London and Early Moving Images -- List of Editors and Contributors -- Index.

A collection problematizing American and British intellectual transactions.

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