PAMLA Member Kevin Hutchings’s New Publications and CD

PAMLA member Kevin Hutchings produced a new monograph, a new co-edited collection, and a new CD in 2009: 

Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850.
Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.

This book highlights significant intersections between Green Romanticism and colonial politics, demonstrating how Romantic-era understandings of animality, climate, and habitat informed literary and cross-cultural debates about race, slavery, colonialism, and nature in the British Atlantic world.  Further information about this title may be found on the McGill-Queen’s University Press website at http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2420

Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture 1750-1850: The Indian Atlantic.  Ed. Tim Fulford and Kevin Hutchings.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Containing chapters written by prominent British, Canadian, American, and First Nations scholars, this book explains how complex relationships between Britons, Anglo-Americans, and Native Americans shaped the literature and history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  Further information about this title may be found on the Cambridge University Press website at http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521888486

On the Bridge You Were Burning.  This independently released CD features Kevin’s original musical interpretations of poems by Lord Byron, Grahame Davies, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.  For further information, and to sample some free musical tracks, please visit Kevin’s website at http://www.kevinhutchings.ca/music