Captivity and Sentiment

By Michelle Burnham

Subjects: Sentimentalism in literature, Imperialism in literature, Intercultural communication in literature, Slavery in literature, Colonies in literature, Imprisonment in literature, History and criticism, American literature

Description: In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of the ambivalent origins of the US national narrative.