1st Edition
Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850 Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture
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
Biography
Annika Bautz is Associate Professor in English at Plymouth University, UK.
Kathryn N. Gray is Reader in Early American Literature at Plymouth University, UK.
