Literature in a Time of Migration
Author | : Josephine McDonagh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192895753 |
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Building on the growing critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, this book confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human movement occurred globally on an unprecedented scale, British fiction appeared to turn inward to tell stories of local places that valorized stability and rootedness. In contrast, this book reveals how literary works, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the advent of the New Imperialism, were active components of a culture of colonization and emigration. Fictional texts, as print commodities, were enmeshed in technologies of transport and communication, and innovations in literary form were spurred by the conditions and consequences of human movement.