Susan Manning

Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader Susan Manning

Commendation Quotes:"Recent events in the global political arena have led to a revaluation in the study of the Atlantic literatures and cultures. Manning and Taylor's reader brings together a wide range of criticism, from RenA(c) Wellek to Wai Chee Dimock, to show that our understanding of those literatures and cultures is freshly derived yet firmly rooted. The book has a substantial introductory chapter and is shrewdly organised into six theoretical and thematic groups, each given a perceptive prologue. It will be required reading for years to come." -- Robert Lawson-Peebles, University of ExeterCommendation Quotes:"Here is a reader that culls the most important, brilliant, and groundbreaking pieces of literary criticism on a comparatist approach to American Studies and offers them to readers in one binding. It is a significant, timely critical achievement, and it is certain to be praised by students and scholars alike." -- Joel Pace, University of WisconsinCommendation Quotes: Here is a reader that culls the most important, brilliant, and groundbreaking pieces of literary criticism on a comparatist approach to American Studies and offers them to readers in one binding. It is a significant, timely critical achievement, and it is certain to be praised by students and scholars alike. Commendation Quotes: Recent events in the global political arena have led to a revaluation in the study of the Atlantic literatures and cultures. Manning and Taylor's reader brings together a wide range of criticism, from Rene Wellek to Wai Chee Dimock, to show that our understanding of those literatures and cultures is freshly derived yet firmly rooted. The book has a substantial introductory chapter and is shrewdly organised into six theoretical and thematic groups, each given a perceptive prologue. It will be required reading for years to come. Biographical Note: Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Andrew Taylor is a lecturer in American Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Marc Notes: First published in the United Kingdom by Edinburgh University Press, 2007--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in cloth. Contributor Bio:  Manning, Susan Susan Manning (1953 2013) was Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. She published many books, book chapters and journal articles, including most recently Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660 1830, eds. Eve Tavor Bannet and Susan Manning (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Character, Self and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment, eds. Thomas Ahnert and Susan Manning (2011). Contributor Bio:  Taylor, Andrew Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, specialising in the concept of state failure and the political reconstruction of post-conflict states.