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Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty

Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty

Gauvin, Mitchell

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Literary CriticismRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 103279481X
ISBN13: 9781032794815
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 11 2024
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Citizenship is at the forefront of popular imagination as political movements and state governments around the world traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric and call for increased policing of borders. Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty looks back to a critical historical juncture in the development of citizenship to uncover how literature contoured and contested imaginings of citizenship. While territory and the nation-state often frame our understanding of citizenship, this book focuses on how non-citizens, foreigners, and strangers have long been central to citizenship's coherence. Rather than rootedness, literary texts exposed the circulations of persons, ideas, and affections at the heart of citizenship. This book brings together an unlikely combination of writers--Olaudah Equiano, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Herman Melville--to show how literature in the Age of Revolution exposed contradictions in notions of liberty and slavery that impacted how citizenship was conceived and practiced.

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