Caught between Worlds : British Captivity Narratives in Fact and Fiction.
The captivity narrative has always been a literary genre associated with America. Joe Snader argues, however, that captivity narratives emerged much earlier in Britain, coinciding with European colonial expansion, the development of anthropology, and the rise of liberal political thought. Stories of...
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The University Press of Kentucky,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Narratives of Fact; 1. Travel, Travail, and the British Captivity Tradition; 2. The Captive as Hero; 3. The Perils and the Powers of Cultural Conversion; Part 2: Narratives of Fiction; 4. Mastering Captivity; 5. Resisting Americans in British Novels of American Captivity; 6. Utopian Captivities and other ""African"" Paradoxes; Conclusion; Notes; Primary Bibliography; Secondary Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
