Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800–1840

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.