The Emigrants

The Emigrants
Author: Gilbert Imlay
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 1998-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101501669

Imlay’s delightful epistolary adventure of 1793, set on the American frontier, was one of the first American novels. The trials of an emigrant family in the Ohio River Valley of Kentucky contrast the decadence of Europe with the utopian promise of the American West. Its sensational love plots also dramatize the novel’s surprising feminist allegiances.

The Vagabond

The Vagabond
Author: George Walker
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2004-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781551113753

First published in 1799, George Walker’s The Vagabond was an immediate popular success. Offering a vitriolic critique of post-Bastille Jacobinism and sansculotte-style mob rule, its true-to-life satirical portraits of many of the radical men and women who fought in the forefront of the "British Revolution" are nonetheless full of playful banter and farce. With swipes at Hume, Rousseau, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Paine; the French Revolution; and the ideas of the noble savage, natural virtue, liberty, equality, and romantic primitivism, The Vagabond offers a unique cross-section of 1790s radicalism. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a wide selection of primary source materials that situate the novel in the context of the revolutionary debate of the 1790s. Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and excerpts from the writings of a variety of radicals and reactionaries engaged in the debate, such as Hume, Rousseau, Paine, Thelwall, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Burke, Playfair, Malthus, and Cobbett, among many others.

Gilbert Imlay

Gilbert Imlay
Author: Wil Verhoeven
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 131730361X

A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas, ambitions and schemes he frequently borrowed and disseminated across the Atlantic and continents.

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Author: Christopher John Murray
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1304
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 157958361X

Review: "Written to stress the crosscurrent of ideas, this cultural encyclopedia provides clearly written and authoritative articles. Thoughts, themes, people, and nations that define the Romantic Era, as well as some frequently overlooked topics, receive their first encyclopedic treatments in 850 signed articles, with bibliographies and coverage of historical antecedents and lingering influences of romanticism. Even casual browsers will discover much to enjoy here."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

In this Remote Country

In this Remote Country
Author: Edward Watts
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780807857625

When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Na

Romantic Geographies

Romantic Geographies
Author: Amanda Gilroy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2000
Genre: British
ISBN: 9780719057854

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances.All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the priveleged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.

The Voice of the Old Frontier

The Voice of the Old Frontier
Author: R. W. G. Vail
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512819093

This volume contains the three lectures R. W. G. Vail delivered in the fall of 1945, in connection with his A. S. Rosenbach Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800.

Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion

Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion
Author: Julie Ellison
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1999-12-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780226205960

In this aambitious account of a much expanded Age of Sensibility, Julie Ellison traces the evolution of the politics of emotion on both sides of the Atlantic from the late 17th to the early 19th century.

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
Author: Modern Language Association of America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1126
Release: 1924
Genre: Philology, Modern
ISBN:

Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.

The Rediscovery of America

The Rediscovery of America
Author: Stuart Andrews
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1998-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349269344

The Rediscovery of America features some twenty representatives of England, France and America, whose careers in some sense straddled the Atlantic in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. While not establishing causal links between the American and French Revolutions, the collective weight of these individual responses to the new America supports the idea of an 'Atlantic Revolution'. This study of the writings and transatlantic experiences of the revolutionary generation shows the power of American images in shaping political rhetoric, if not political reality.