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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-291) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: transatlantic stories and transatlantic readers -- Part I. 'Poor Man's Country': 1. Strange adventures; 2. Captivity and antislavery; 3. The parallel Atlantic economy; 4. Fortune's footballs -- Part II. The Servant's Tale: 5. The bonds of servitude; 6. Bond and free: contemporary readings of Gronniosaw's Life; 7. Samson Occom's itinerancies -- Part III. Printscapes: 8. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war on politeness; 9. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war upon war.;

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Transatlantic stories and the history of reading, 1720-1810 : migrant fictions / Eve Tavor Bannet.

Author/creator	Bannet, Eve Tavor, 1947-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description	ix, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Cover image
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subjects	English literature--Appreciation. --United States. American literature--Appreciation. --Great Britain. Comparative literature--English and American. Comparative literature--American and English. Books and reading--History. --18th century. Liberty in literature. Publishers and publishing--History. --18th century. Adventure stories, English--History and criticism. Atlantic Ocean Region--In literature. Atlantic Ocean Region--Description and travel. --History.

Contents	Introduction: transatlantic stories and transatlantic readers -- Part I. 'Poor Man's Country': 1. Strange adventures; 2. Captivity and antislavery; 3. The parallel Atlantic economy; 4. Fortune's footballs -- Part II. The Servant's Tale: 5. The bonds of servitude; 6. Bond and free: contemporary readings of Gronniosaw's Life; 7. Samson Occom's itinerancies -- Part III. Printscapes: 8. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war on politeness; 9. Robert Bell's theaters of war: the war upon war.
Abstract	"Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons' and Americans' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what contemporaries said about them and did with them; in doing so, she reveals the creatively dynamic and unstable character of transatlantic print culture. Stories include the 'other' Robinson Crusoe and works by Penelope Aubin, Rowlandson, Chetwood, Tyler, Kimber, Richardson, Gronniosaw, Equiano, Cugoano Marrant, Samson Occom, Mackenzie and Pratt"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-291) and index.
LCCN	2011002468
ISBN	9781107007468
ISBN	1107007461

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