Imagining the British Atlantic After the American Revolution

Michael Meranze is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Saree Makdisi is a professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Introduction: Division, Renewal, and Repetition – Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution (Michael Meranze And Saree Makdisi)1. Transoceanic Spectacles of Dissection: London’s Anatomical Art in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania (Ari Sarafianos)2. Disavowed and Reprobated: Anti-Quakerism in an Age of Revolution (Sarah Crabtree)3. British Atlantic Catholicism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction (Catherine O’Donnell)4. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Two Lovers: Convergence and Divergence in Trans-Atlantic Literary Radicalism (Andrew Cayton)5. Susanna Rowson’s Antislavery and Feminist Ideals in Transatlantic Translation: A Tale of Three Cities (Jenna Gibbs)6. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s Romantic Retreat: Magic, Mesmerism, and Prophecy, 1776–1802 (Iain McCalman)7. From Radical Enthusiasm to Liberal Melancholia: Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Modern Chivalry, Part 1 and 2 (Anthony Galluzzo)8. Penal Reform and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century England: “A Prison Must Be a Prison” (Randall McGowen)9. When the Atlantic Went Global: A Note on Slavery and Rebellion in Fletcher Christian’s Pitcairn (Edward G. Gray)

‘This edited collection provides novel perspective and much food for thought on the revolutionary Atlantic and its complexity.’ - Enrico Dal Lago (Canadian Journal of History vol 51:03:2016) "The editors have curated an insightful, thought provoking collection that is sure to inspire a multitude of future academics to re-conceptualize the heterogeneity that existed in the Atlantic world during the Age of Revolution."- Gregg French (H-Net Reviews published on H-USA February 2018)