Romantic diasporas : French émigrés, British convicts, and Jews /

Romantic diasporas : French émigrés, British convicts, and Jews / Toby R. Benis.

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Romantic Diasporas examines exile in the Romantic period from the different perspectives of French émigrés in England, British convicts transported to Australia, and Jews in their perennial diaspora.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Benis, Toby R., 1963-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Romanticism > Great Britain. Exiles in literature. French > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Jews > Great Britain > History > 19th century. British > Australia > History > 19th century. Emigration and immigration in literature. Jewish diaspora in literature. National characteristics, British, in literature. British in literature. British. English literature. French. Jews. Romanticism. Australia. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

"Boundless, yet distinct" : the émigré experience and the 1790s
The French connection in Frances Burney and Mary Shelley
Beyond the convict taint : George Barrington and the colonial cure
The Scottish martyrs and the reform of narrative
Edgeworth and the Jews : diaspora and political control.