{"product_id":"nation-and-migration-the-making-of-british-atlantic-literature-1765-1835-9780190272555","title":"Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835","description":"\u003cem\u003eNation and Migration\u003c\/em\u003e explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the love-hate\u003cbr\u003erelations between the United States and England. By allowing England to stand in for the British archipelago, Juliet Shields argues, recent literary scholarship has oversimplified the processes through which the new United States differentiated itself culturally from Britain and underestimated the\u003cbr\u003eimpact of migration on British nation formation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn short, \u003cem\u003eNation and Migration\u003c\/em\u003e provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants. Scottish, Irish, and Welsh migrants brought with them to the American colonies and early republic stories and traditions very different from those shared by English settlers.\u003cbr\u003eAmericans looked to these stories for narratives of cultural and racial origins through which to legitimate their new nation. Writers situated in Britain's Celtic peripheries in turn drew on American discourses of rights and liberties to assert the cultural independence of Scotland, Ireland, and\u003cbr\u003eWales from the English imperial center. The stories that late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britons and Americans told about transatlantic migration and settlement, whether from the position of migrant or observer, reveal the tenuousness and fragility of Britain and the United States as\u003cbr\u003erelatively new national entities. These stories illustrate the dialectial relationship between nation and migration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juliet Shields\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190272555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJuliet Shields\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eSentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40110185611379,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":89.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_94d977a0-a6f8-4865-912b-a3900bfe9cdc.jpg?v=1653401890","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/nation-and-migration-the-making-of-british-atlantic-literature-1765-1835-9780190272555","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}