Transatlantic Literary Studies
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Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a «new specimen of beauty»? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for redefining American literature? This book offers a new understanding of Poe's literary... more
In _Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures_ ed. by Tania Gentic and Francisco LaRubia Prado (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
The Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) and the Finnish Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg (1857-1913), both active women’s rights advocates who toured in the United States in the 1850s and 1880s, respectively, used their travel... more
Call for Papers Globalized Peripheries New Approaches to the Atlantic World 1680–1850 Date: July 5th–7th, 2018 Place: European University Viadrina (Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany) Possible topics include but are not limited to: • The... more