Introduction: Decentering transatlantic literary studies -- From English empire to British Atlantic world -- The Irish uncanny and the American gothic -- Scots and Scott in the early republic -- Wales and the American West -- The literary sketch and British Atlantic regionalism …
'Nation and Migration' provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture.
'Nation and Migration' provides a literary history for a nation that still considers itself a land of immigrants, exploring the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture.
"Nation and Migration 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 "lo…
Il était près de midi, le 23 février 1979, quand l'hélicoptère s'est posé dans le stationnement de la Place Côte-Vertu, en face de la Banque Royale. Un homme et une femme en sont sortis, pantalon de cuir et look de rock stars. Ils sont entrés dans la banque avec une mitraillette…
Community, commodity and commerce: the Stockholm-Scots in the seventeenth century / Steve Murdoch -- Scoti, cives cracovienses: their ethnic and social identity, 1570-1660 / Waldemar Kowalski -- Fortress Rotterdam? Rotterdam's Scots community and the covenanter cause, 1638-1688 …
This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. Divided into four sections - 'Immigrants and Civilian Life', 'Diplomats and Travellers', 'Protestants and Patrons' and 'Catholics at Hom…