Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835

ISBN-13: 9781137340047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 235 str.

Cynthia Schoolar Williams; Cynthia Schoolar Williams

Opis

At the exhausted conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, as nationalisms gained momentum, writers as diverse as Mary Shelley, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Felicia Hemans took up the discourse of hospitality. In a series of innovative transatlan

Recenzje

'...by gathering what may seem at first glance to be an unusual variety of topics and authors, Williams makes an original contribution to this growing sub-field... sensitive, probing readings.' Evan Gottlieb, The BARS Review

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Cynthia Schoolar Williams is Instructor in the Deptartment of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, USA.