Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920 - by Linda K Hughes & Sarah Ruffing Robbins & Andrew Taylor (Paperback)

About the Book

The first anthology to bring together Anglophone transatlantic writing across the period of the long nineteenth century.

Book Synopsis

This anthology provides a single, convenient volume of diverse primary texts supporting the teaching and research field of Anglophone Transatlantic literature and print culture in the long nineteenth century. Focusing on ongoing and shared concerns and social practices across the long nineteenth century, the book's thematically-organised sections mark major Transatlantic social movements of that era as expressed, negotiated, and recorded through literary production. The Anthology offers a range of tools and texts for innovative thinking, teaching, and exploration. Headnotes provide guidance on how individual selections arose from social and historical contexts and, often, suggest potential pairings with other selections. Annotations create student-friendly identification of key terms or allusions.

From the Back Cover

The first anthology to bring together Anglophone transatlantic writing across the period of the long nineteenth century This anthology provides a single, convenient volume of diverse primary texts supporting the teaching and research field of Anglophone Transatlantic literatures and print culture. Focusing on ongoing and shared concerns and social practices across the long nineteenth century, the book's thematically-organised sections mark major Transatlantic social movements of that era as expressed, negotiated, and recorded through literary production. The anthology offers a range of tools and texts for innovative thinking, teaching, and exploration. Headnotes provide guidance on how individual selections arose from social and historical contexts. Annotations create student-friendly identification of key terms or allusions. Key Features: - Includes a diverse range of Anglophone primary texts from across the Atlantic basin - Presents textual headnotes to contextualise the primary material - Provides ten introductions to guide students through the different thematic sections of the Anthology - Offers diverse approaches for use as a core text in classroom teaching - Allows students to navigate their way through a wide range of writing from both familiar and less well-known authors Linda K. Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU. Sarah R. Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU. Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Adam Nemmers is an Assistant Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Heidi Hakimi-Hood is Associate Director of International Student Services and the Intensive English Language Institute at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Review Quotes

As an instructor and scholar in the field of nineteenthcentury American and transatlantic literature, I find Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920: An Anthology a valuable text that is much needed for the classroom and the (home) office. I plan to use it for a long time to come.--Stephanie Peebles Tavera "Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 3.1"

Transatlantic Anglophone Literature, 1776-1920: An Anthology pushes productively against the conventional limits of several of its key terms: Atlantic, Anglophone, literature, and anthology. Indeed, it is their reenvisioning of the anthology as a dynamic, interactive form that enables Linda K. Hughes, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Andrew Taylor to challenge the parameters of other key terms. By supplementing the print anthology with an open-access digital anthology, the editors have built in the capacity for growth and change. [...] If the Norton Anthologies embodied the weightiness and distinctness of the British and US literary canons, Transatlantic Anglophone Literature captures the rapid expansion of transatlantic literary studies as it has recognized previously marginalized voices and perspectives.--Juliet Shields, University of Washington "ALH Online Review"

Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures is a triumph! It's a richly diverse assemblage of voices that brings home the complexity of transatlantic relations during the period and it's been impeccably, usefully and thoughtfully organised and annotated. I can't wait to use this truly exciting and intellectually provocative anthology in the classroom.--Kate Flint, University of Southern California

A formidable anthology that is extremely well-organized, superbly annotated and that uses the self-contradictory complexity of the anthology genre in the best of ways: by presenting the anthology not as a closed chapter, but as an invitation to individually explore a body of writing that offers many surprises as well as fresh perspectives on established material.--Julia Straub, Universität Freiburg i.Ü. "Anglia - Journal of English Philology"

About the Author

Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU, specialises in historical media studies (poetry, periodicals, serial fiction); gender and women's studies; and transnationality including transatlanticism. With Sarah R. Robbins she is co-editor of Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and with Julie Codell co-editor of Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Her monographs include The Victorian Serial (with Michael Lund, 1991), The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010) and Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity (2022).

Sarah Ruffing Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU. Her nine academic books include Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching (2017), the award-winning Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola, 1905-1913 (2011) and Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Henry James and the Father Question (2002), Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Experience (2010), co-author of Thomas Pynchon (2013) and co-editor of If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection (EUP, 2018). He co-edits the book series Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture.

Adam Nemmers is an Assistant Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he teaches courses in American literature. His research focuses on modernism and multi-ethnic American literature, including recent essays and articles on Passing, Richard Wright, Faulkner, and radio drama. His forthcoming published work will include essays and articles on American protest literature, Southern matriarchy, and the Midwestern Ecogothic, in addition to a monograph on the American Modern(ist) Epic (Clemson University Press, 2021). He is currently at work on a book project about transcolonial American literature.

Heidi Hakimi-Hood is Associate Director of International Student Services and the Intensive English Language Institute at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where she teaches English Language Learners. Her research interests include long nineteenth century British, Iberian, and Latin American Literatures.