Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World

Leonard von Morzé is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is the coeditor of Urban Identity and the Atlantic World. He has published extensively on colonial American literature and serves as an Associate Editor of The New England Quarterly.

• .- Introduction.- Invisible Cities: Space and the Politics of Comparison in the Portuguese Atlantic World.- Courtly Ceremonies and an Urban Geography of Power in the Spanish Empire.- Explorers, Pirates and Urban Intellectuals: Towards a Cultural History of the Atlantic Frontier.- Figures of the Circulating Self.-‘Blazing Effects’: The Fifth of November, Guy Fawkes, and the Rhetoric of Slave Conspiracy.- Circling the Squares: City-Building in Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography.- Atlantic Thinking in Jane Austen’s Novels.- Imagined Cities and Atlantic Modernism.- Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American City Writing from Post-Revolutionary Literature to Modernism.- English-Canadian Actresses and the Multiple Networks of the Urban Atlantic, 1890s–1920s.- A Museum is Born: Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar, 1936