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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809187303321

Autore

Benis T

Titolo

Romantic Diasporas: French Émigrés, British Convicts, and Jews [[electronic resource] /] / by T. Benis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-53282-0

9786612532825

0-230-62264-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

Disciplina

820.9/145

820.9145

Soggetti

English language

European literature

Literature

Literature   

Literature—Philosophy

British literature

English

European Literature

Literature, general

Postcolonial/World Literature

Literary Theory

British and Irish Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 ""Boundless, yet Distinct"": The Émigré Experience and the 1790s; 2 The French Connection in Frances Burney and Mary Shelley; 3 Beyond the Convict Taint: George Barrington and the Colonial Cure; 4 The Scottish Martyrs and the Reform of Narrative; 5 Edgeworth and the Jews: Diaspora and Political Control; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Romantic Diasporasexamines exile in the Romantic period fromthe



different perspectives of French émigrés in England, British convicts transported to Australia, and Jews in their perennial diaspora.