Rise of New Media 1750–1850

Julia Straub is Senior Lecturer at the English Department of the University Berne, Switzerland. She is the editor of the Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies and author of A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante’s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature.

• .-1 Introduction: Building an American Memory of Literature, 1750-1850.-2 Remembering Literature in Early America: Transatlanticism, Cultural Memory and Its Media.-3 Virtual Museums: The Literary Magazine and Transatlantic Periodical Culture.-4 Of Gems, Beauties and Relics: Anthologies in Early America.-5 Early Forms of Literary Historiography in America: Literary Histories as Narrative Anthologies.- Conclusion