Romantic Diasporas: French Émigrés, British Convicts, and Jews

TOBY BENIS is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Saint Louis University, USA.

• Introduction '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 in Harrington

" Romantic Diasporas is a timely addition to the now substantial body of criticism concerned with the global context of Romanticism . . . Combining discussion of canonical works with less familiar writing, Romantic Diasporas is immensely valuable in turning the critical gaze to the issue of diaspora and its presence as a subject in the period . . . Romantic Diasporas will be welcomed by the scholars of Romantic period writing." - Wordsworth Circle