Julia M. Wright, FRSC, is Professor and George Munro Chair in Literature and Rhetoric in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. She is the author of Men with Stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in US Television (2016), Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism (2014), Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2007) and Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (2004). She is also the editor or co-editor of a further eleven volumes, including Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology (2008) and editions of three novels for Broadview Press.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Introduction: Moore, Romanticism, and the Transatlantic1. Literary Theory in Moore’s Dublin: Gender, Collaboration, and Community2. Moore on Migration: Virtual Nationalism and Performing Nativeness3. “The good ship, ‘the Truth’”: Slavery, Trade, and “Moral Positions”4. “The Mobility”: Radicalism, Globalization, and Moore’s Boxing Satires5. Cash and Corn: Adventures in the Food Trade6. The Nautical Gothic: Ghost Ships and Military SeascapesAfterword: Hydraulic PoeticsBibliographyIndex

An essential read. Julia M. Wright offers a stimulating study of ‘transatlantic Tom’ that opens into an expansive and original investigation of early nineteenth-century Irish and British literature and culture as shaped by sea and ocean. With co-ordinates located in Dublin and Halifax, Wright's book maps fascinating local stories onto a global frame, taking in Bermuda and Haiti as well as continental Europe, Canada and the eastern United States.