Contributor Biographies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgments v
4. Contributor Biographies vi
5. Introduction: A Literary History of Migration, 1750–1850 1
6. I. Moving Voices: Competing Perspectives on Migration
7. 1. Byron’s Ambivalent Modernity: Touring and Forced Migration in Don Juan 15
8. 2. Diasporas: Thomas Pringle and Mary Prince 51
9. 3. Transatlantic Masculinities: Military Leadership and Migration in the South American Wars of Independence 77
10. 4. At Home on the Prairie? Black Hawk, Margaret Fuller, and American Indian Dispossession 101
11. II. Migrants as Cultural Mediators: Epistemes and Aesthetics of Mobility
12. 5. “An Alien to my Country”: Migration and Statelessness in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer 123
13. 6. The Great Migration and Individual Travels: Precursors of Serbian Modernity? 150
14. 7. Orientalism in Transit: Company Men, Colonial Historiography, and Other Handmaidens of Empire 170
15. 8. The Turkish Refugee as Vagrant Slave: Spaces of Disconnection and Dispossession in Ishmael Bashaw’s Refugee Narrative 184
16. Index 212