TY - JOUR
AU - Shields, Juliet
AB - ALH Online Review, Series XXXVIII 1389 Transatlantic Anglophone Literature, 1776-1920: An Anthology, eds. Linda K. Hughes, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Andrew Taylor, with associate editors Adam Nemmers and Heidi Hakimi-Hood (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 777 pp. Reviewed by Juliet Shields, University of Washington, Seattle Transatlantic Anglophone Literature, 1776-1920: an Anthology pushes productively against the conventional limits of several of its key terms: Atlantic, Anglophone, literature, and anthology. Indeed, it is their reenvisioning of the anthology as a dynamic, interactive form that enables Linda K. Hughes, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Andrew Taylor to challenge the parameters of other key terms. By supplementing the print anthology with an open- access digital anthology (https://teachingtransatlanticism.tcu.edu), the editors have built in the capacity for growth and change. This multimodal anthology is a far cry from the hardback Norton Anthologies of English and American Literature of my undergraduate years, which resembled bricks in shape, color (without their dust jackets), and heft. If the Norton Anthologies embodied the weightiness and distinctness of the British and US literary canons, Transatlantic Anglophone Literature captures the rapid expansion of transatlantic literary studies as it has recognized previously marginalized voices and perspectives. The reading selections in both the print 
TI - Transatlantic Anglophone Literature, 1776-1920: An Anthology, eds. Linda K. Hughes, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Andrew Taylor, with associate editors Adam Nemmers and Heidi Hakimi-Hood
JO - American Literary History
DO - 10.1093/alh/ajad081
DA - 2023-08-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/transatlantic-anglophone-literature-1776-1920-an-anthology-eds-linda-k-NIaf8ulpFR
SP - 1389
EP - 1392
VL - 35
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -