This book contributes to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. It identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities can engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery, natural knowledge, democracy, and relig
This book contributes to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. It identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities can engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery, natural knowledge, democracy, and relig
Annika Bautz is Associate Professor in English at Plymouth University, UK. Kathryn N. Gray is Reader in Early American Literature at Plymouth University, UK.
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CONTENTS Introduction Part I: Travelling Subjects and Transitive Identities Chapter One: Romancing the Slave Trade; Or, Reformation in Mansfield's Park Elizabeth Fay Chapter Two: ''That Dreadful, Delightful City": Edgar Allan Poe and the Transatlantic Essaying of London Simon Peter Hull Chapter Three: "Humble Auxiliaries to Nature": Go-Betweens and Natural Knowledge in Crèvecoeur's Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York Kathryn Gray Chapter Four: Writing Pocahontas: Romantic Women Writers and the Transatlantic Rescuing Indian Maiden Melissa Adams-Campbell Part II: Ancient Decline and Nineteenth-Century Moralities Chapter Five: The Politics of Disaster in Lydia Maria Child's Philothea: A Grecian Romance (1837) Matthew Duques Chapter Six: Christian Morality and Roman Depravity: Illustrating Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) in a Transatlantic Literary Market Annika Bautz Part III: Transatlantic Print Culture and Transitive Texts Chapter Seven: Virtual Museums in Early America: Transatlantic Magazine Culture and Cultural Memory Julia Straub Chapter Eight: Cultural Transfer in the German Atlantic: Brown, Oertel, and the First Translation of a U.S. Novel Leonard von Morzé Chapter Nine: William Blake's American Afterlives: Transatlantic Poetics in Emerson and Whitman Clare Frances Elliott Chapter Ten: American Notes and English Guidebooks: (Re)Writing English Literature in Melville and Dickens Katie McGettigan and Diana Powell Index
CONTENTS Introduction Part I: Travelling Subjects and Transitive Identities Chapter One: Romancing the Slave Trade; Or, Reformation in Mansfield's Park Elizabeth Fay Chapter Two: ''That Dreadful, Delightful City": Edgar Allan Poe and the Transatlantic Essaying of London Simon Peter Hull Chapter Three: "Humble Auxiliaries to Nature": Go-Betweens and Natural Knowledge in Crèvecoeur's Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York Kathryn Gray Chapter Four: Writing Pocahontas: Romantic Women Writers and the Transatlantic Rescuing Indian Maiden Melissa Adams-Campbell Part II: Ancient Decline and Nineteenth-Century Moralities Chapter Five: The Politics of Disaster in Lydia Maria Child's Philothea: A Grecian Romance (1837) Matthew Duques Chapter Six: Christian Morality and Roman Depravity: Illustrating Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) in a Transatlantic Literary Market Annika Bautz Part III: Transatlantic Print Culture and Transitive Texts Chapter Seven: Virtual Museums in Early America: Transatlantic Magazine Culture and Cultural Memory Julia Straub Chapter Eight: Cultural Transfer in the German Atlantic: Brown, Oertel, and the First Translation of a U.S. Novel Leonard von Morzé Chapter Nine: William Blake's American Afterlives: Transatlantic Poetics in Emerson and Whitman Clare Frances Elliott Chapter Ten: American Notes and English Guidebooks: (Re)Writing English Literature in Melville and Dickens Katie McGettigan and Diana Powell Index
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