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Migration and ModernitiesThe State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850

Edited by JoEllen DeLucia and Juliet Shields

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Recovers a comparative literary history of migration

This collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

Key Features
  • Offers a comparative framework for understanding the modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobility
  • Foregrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship
  • Demonstrates how mobility unsettles the national, cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize literary and historical study
  • Brings together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the emergence of modernity
  • Emphasizes the globalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Reviews

Migration and Modernities radically reimagines the boundaries of our discipline and canon by boldly repositioning global narratives of mobility at the heart of modernity.
Migration and Modernities radically reimagines the boundaries of our discipline and canon by boldly repositioning global narratives of mobility at the heart of modernity.
Migrations and Modernities as a collection will certainly make an important contribution to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies in bringing the figure of the migrant into focus outside the category of the nation.
Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Contributor biographies

"Introduction: A Literary History of Migration, 1750-1850"JoEllen DeLucia and Juliet Shields

I. Moving Voices: competing perspectives on migration

1. "Byron’s Ambivalent Modernity: Touring and Forced Migration in Don Juan" Betsy Bolton

2. "Diasporas: Thomas Pringle and Mary Prince" Kenneth McNeil

3. "Transatlantic Masculinities: Military Leadership and Migration in the South American Wars of Independence"M. Soledad Caballero

4. "At Home on the Prairie?: Black Hawk, Margaret Fuller, and American Indian Dispossession" Melissa Adams-Campbell

II. Migrants as Cultural Mediators: epistemes and aesthetics of mobility

5. "‘An Alien to my Country’: Migration and Statelessness in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer"Patricia Cove

6. “The Great Migration and Individual Travels: Precursors of Serbian Modernity?” Dragana Grbić

7. "Orientalism in Transit: Company Men, Colonial Historiography, and Other Handmaidens of Empire" Olivera Jokic

8. "The Turkish Refugee as Vagrant Slave: Spaces of Disconnection and Dispossession in Ishmael Bashaw’s Refugee Narrative"Claire Gallien

Index

About the contributors

JoEllen DeLucia

JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. Her publications include A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP 2015) and an essay collection, co-edited with Juliet Shields, Migration and Modernities: The State of Statelessness, 1750-1850 (EUP. 2018). She has also just completed a four-volume primary source collection, Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 (Routledge, expected 2026), co-edited with Jennifer Camden. In addition to these larger projects, she has published several essays and book chapters on women writers, moral philosophy, and print culture.

Juliet Shields

Juliet Shields is Professor of English and Kahn Chair in the Humanities at Southern Methodist University. She works on literature of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglophone Atlantic world, with emphases in print culture, diaspora studies, settler colonialism, and women’s writing. Her past books related to the project proposed here include Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World (2021) and Nation and Migration: the Making of British Atlantic Literature (2016).