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 …
The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish…
The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish…
"Bennett relies heavily upon the oral tradition, and she embraces the diverse disciplines of folklore, history, geography, literature, sociology, agriculture, botany, and home economics in the creation of this book." "Oatmeal and the Catechism will be of interest to scholars and…
"Bennett relies heavily upon the oral tradition, and she embraces the diverse disciplines of folklore, history, geography, literature, sociology, agriculture, botany, and home economics in the creation of this book." "Oatmeal and the Catechism will be of interest to scholars and…
"This book examines the distinctive aspects, mixed and complex, that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteris…
"The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate. All over the British Empire, The United States and elsewhere, T…
