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by Mitchell Gauvin (Author)
A Wish for Air and Liberty examines how upheaval and humanitarian crisis provoked literary authors to engage with emergent questions of citizenship and belonging. Playing on the double meaning of "revolution" as both rupture and rotation, this book uncovers how literature both serviced and subverted concepts of citizenship.
Author Biography
Mitchell Gauvin is a Canadian scholar who focuses on the intersection between literature and citizenship. Focusing on both the contemporary period and the long eighteenth century, his research approaches citizenship from transnational, transhistorical, and postcolonial perspectives. He holds PhD from York University in Toronto and served as a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Linguistics at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz in Germany (2022-24).
