Table of Contents

Introduction Eve Tavor Bannet and Susan Manning; 1. Transatlantic books and literary culture Richard Sher; 2. Transatlantic Utopianism and the writing of America Wil Verhoeven; 3. Tales of wonder, spiritual autobiographies and providence tales Jim Egan; 4. Life writings Susan Imbarrato; 5. Benjamin Franklin and transatlantic literary journalism Carla Mulford; 6. Theatre, drama, performance Jeffrey Richards; 7. Transatlantic American Indians Tim Fulford; 8. Literature of the ocean Janet Sorensen; 9. 'To gird this watery globe': Freneau, Barlow and American neoclassical poetry Paul Giles; 10. Ghostly and vernacular presences in the Black Atlantic Alan Rice; 11. Susanna Rowson and the transatlantic captivity narrative Lise Sorensen; 12. Domestic fiction and the reprint trade Eve Tavor Bannet; 13. Transatlantic Gothic Robert Miles; 14. Transatlantic Romanticisms Colleen Glenney Boggs; 15. Journeys of the imagination in Wheatley and Coleridge Joel Pace; 16. Transatlantic historical fiction Susan Manning; Further reading; Index.

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A collection of new essays on the literary influences going backwards and forwards across the ocean.

About the Author

Eve Tavor Bannet is George Lynn Cross Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews

'The collection's answers are rich and varied, and the essayists - themselves a transatlantic assembly - convince that national labels are contingent, as is transatlanticism itself.' The Journal of American History