Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776–1920

Adam Nemmers is an Assistant Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he teaches courses in American literature. His research focuses on modernism and multi-ethnic American literature, including recent essays and articles on Passing, Richard Wright, Faulkner, and radio drama. His forthcoming published work will include essays and articles on American protest literature, Southern matriarchy, and the Midwestern Ecogothic, in addition to a monograph on the American Modern(ist) Epic (Clemson University Press, 2021). He is currently at work on a book project about transcolonial American literature. Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at TCU, specialises in historical media studies (poetry, periodicals, serial fiction); gender and women’s studies; and transnationality including transatlanticism. With Sarah R. Robbins she is co-editor of Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and with Julie Codell co-editor of Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Her monographs include The Victorian Serial (with Michael Lund, 1991), The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010) and Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity (2022). Heidi Hakimi-Hood is Associate Director of International Student Services and the Intensive English Language Institute at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where she teaches English Language Learners. Her research interests include long nineteenth century British, Iberian, and Latin American Literatures. Sarah Ruffing Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU. Her nine academic books include Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women’s Cross-Cultural Teaching (2017), the award-winning Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola, 1905-1913 (2011) and Teaching Transatlanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Henry James and the Father Question (2002), Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Experience (2010), co-author of Thomas Pynchon (2013) and co-editor of If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection (EUP, 2018). He co-edits the book series Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture.

• Acknowledgements Editorial Practices THEMATIC SECTIONS:Abolition and AftermathPhillis Wheatley, ‘To the Right Honourable WILLIAM, Earl of Dartmouth’ (1773) William Cowper, ‘The Negro’s Complaint’ (1788) ‘Ode: The Insurrection of the Slaves at St. Domingo’ (1792) William Wilberforce, From An Appeal to The Religion, Justice, and Humanity of The Inhabitants of The British Empire, in Behalf of The Negro Slaves in The West Indies (1823) Mary Prince, From The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave. Related by Herself (1831) Juan Francisco Manzano, ‘Thirty Years’, Translated by Richard R. Madden (1840) Frederick Douglass, ‘Preface’ to the Second Dublin Edition, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1846) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’ (1848) William Wells Brown, London Anti-slavery Speech of September (1849) Transatlantic Exchanges on Slavery (1853-63) ‘The Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters the Women of the United States of America’ (1853) Responses to the ‘Affectionate Letter’Sarah Josepha Hale, From ‘Editor’s Table’ Response (1853)Julia Gardiner Tyler, ‘To the Duchess of Sutherland and Ladies of England’ (1853) Harriet Ann Jacobs, ‘Letter from a Fugitive Slave’ (1853) Harriet Beecher Stowe, A Reply to ‘The Affectionate and Christian Address …. (1863) ‘Dramatic Readings by a Coloured Native of Philadelphia’ (1856) From ‘British Abolitionist Movements: Slavery and American Churches’ (1856) William and Ellen Craft and Samuel J. May, ‘Preface’ and ‘Letter to Mr. Estlin’ From Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) Mary Ann Shadd Cary, ‘A Voice of Thanks’: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Esq. (1861) Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Eliot Norton, Letters on the Civil War (1861, 1863) Frances Ann (Fanny) Kemble, From Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (1863) ‘Abolition of Slavery by the Cherokee Indians’ (1863) Fisk Jubilee Singers, ‘Steal Away’ and ‘Go down, Moses’ (1872) Carrie Walls, ‘Children’s Exchange’ (1887) Celestine Edwards, Introduction, United States Atrocities: Lynch Law, by Ida B. Wells (1892) Henry W. Nevinson, From ‘The New Slave-Trade: Introductory—Down the West Coast’ (1905) W. E. B. DuBois, ‘Returning Soldiers’ (1919) Art, Aesthetics, and Entertainment Joel Barlow, From The Columbiad (1807) Francis Jeffrey, From Review of Joel Barlow, The Columbiad: A Poem’ (1809) Washington Irving, From ‘English Writers on America’ (1819-20) Sydney Smith, From ‘Review of Statistical Annals of the United States of America. By Adam Seybert’ (1820) William Cullen Bryant, ‘Sonnet – To an American Painter Departing for Europe’ (1829) Edgar Allan Poe, From Review of Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens’ (1842) Frederick Douglass, ‘Dempster’ (1849) George Eliot, ‘Review of Dred by Harriet Beecher Stowe' (1856) Edmund Clarence Stedman, From ‘Victorian Poets’ (1873) Oscar Wilde, From ‘Decorative Art in America’ (1882) Frances E. W. Harper, From ‘A Factor in Human Progress’ (1885) ‘Buffalo Bill and the Wild West’ (1887) Matthew Arnold, From ‘Civilisation in the United States’ (1888) William Sharp, From ‘The Sonnet in America’ (1889) Anna Julia Cooper, From ‘The Negro as Presented in American Literature’ (1892) E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), From ‘A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction’ (1892) John Addington Symonds, From Walt Whitman (1893) Albert Chevalier, ‘The Yankee in London’ (1900) Business, Industry and Labour ‘An African Work Song, Barbados’ (ca. 1770s-1780s) Maria Edgeworth, From ‘To-Morrow’ (1804) ‘European Colonies in America’ and ‘Hayti’ (1827-28) Harriet Martineau, From Demerara (1832) ‘Periodical Literature of the North American Indians’ (1837) Hans Christian Andersen, ‘The Little Match-Girl’ (1847) Karl Marx, From ‘Great Britain: Strikes’ (1853) Harriet Beecher Stowe, ‘Letter XXIX’, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854) Mary Seacole, From ‘My Work in the Crimea’ and ‘My Customers at the British Hotel’, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) James Henry Hammond, From ‘Speech on the Admission of Kansas’ (1858) ‘Women’s Condition in Great Britain, From an American Point of View’ (1860) Sara Willis Parton [Fanny Fern], From ‘Bridget As She Was, And Bridget As She Is’ Part II, Folly as it Flies (1868) John Rollin Ridge, ‘The Atlantic Cable’ (1868) William Thomas (W. T.) Stead, From The Americanization of the World (1901) Cicely Fox Smith, ‘The Ballad of the "Dinkin Bar"’ (1919) Family and DomesticityThomas Paine, From Common Sense Part III, ‘Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs’ (1776) Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld, From Lessons for Children (1778) David Humphreys, From ‘A Poem on the Happiness of America’ (1786) Enslaved Jamaican Singers and J. B. Moreton, Two Jamaican Songs From West India Customs and Manners (1790) Felicia Hemans, ‘The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England’ (1828) Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Dickensian Christmas Narratives Charles Dickens, From ‘A Good-Humoured Christmas Chapter’ in Pickwick Papers (1836) Charles Dickens, ‘Preface’ to A Christmas Carol (1843) Samuel Rinder, From ‘South American Christmas’ in Dickens’s Household Words (1852) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, From Evangeline Part I (1847) Mary Howitt, From Our Cousins in Ohio: From a Mother’s Diary (1849) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and Jane J. Schoolcraft, From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers (1851) Mary Seacole, From Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857) Harriet Ann Jacobs, From The Deeper Wrong; or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1862) William Hepworth Dixon, From New America (1867) Sara Willis Parton [Fanny Fern], From ‘Mistakes About Our Children’ from Folly as it Flies (1868) From ‘Home: The Byron Scandal’ in Public Opinion (1869) World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, ‘Pledge’ (1883)Frances Hodgson Burnett, From Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-86) Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, ‘Two Sabbath Parties’ (1893) Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) From ‘Economic’, ‘The Social Law’, and ‘Inter-racial Marriage’ in ‘The North American Indian’ Address (1911) Jane Addams, From ‘A Modern Lear’ (1915) John McCrae and Sir Andrew Macphail, From In Flanders fields, and other poems (1919) Migration, Settlement, and ResistanceJoseph Brant (Thayendenegeh), ‘Speech of Captain Brant to Lord George Germain’ (1776) James Boswell, ‘An Account of the Chief of the Mohock Indians, who lately visited England’ (1776) Benjamin Franklin, From Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1818) Thomas Campbell, ‘The Emigrant’ (1823) James E. Seaver and Mary Jemison, ‘Introduction’, Narrative in the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824) Lydia H. Sigourney, ‘To the First Slave Ship’ (1827) and ‘Indian Names’ (1834)Caroline Norton, ‘The Creole Girl’ Part I (1840) Mary Ann Shadd [Cary], From A Plea For Emigration; Or, Notes Of Canada West (1852) Susanna Moodie, From Roughing It in the Bush; or, Forest Life in Canada (1852) ‘The Sorrows of the Cherokees’ (1856) Sarah Parker Remond, ‘Colonization. To the Editor of the "Freed-Man"’ (1866) Sara Willis Parton [Fanny Fern], From ‘Bridget As She Was, And Bridget As She Is’ Part I Folly as it Flies (1868) ‘Irish Female Emigration’ (1884) E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) ‘Joe: An Etching’ (1888), ‘Inscription’ (1903), ‘Canadian Born’ (1900) and ‘The Corn Husker’ (1896) Ann McNabb, ‘The Life Story of an Irish Cook’ (1906) Henry James, From The American Scene (1907) Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa), From ‘The Transition Period: First Effects of Civilisation’ in ‘The North American Indian’ Address (1911) Edith Maude Eaton, ‘Sui Sin Far, the Half Chinese Writer, Tells of Her Career’ (1912) From Reviews of Mary Antin’s The Promised Land (1913) John Muir, From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913) Nationalism and CosmopolitanismPhillis Wheatley, ‘To His Excellency Gen. Washington’ (1776) Thomas Paine, From Rights of Man. Part the Second (1792) 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld, From Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812) 　 　 　 　 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, From Kavanagh, A Tale (1849) W. G. Allen, ‘Placido’ (1852) Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Result’, From English Traits (1856) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘A Curse for a Nation’ (1856) Emma Lazarus, ‘The New Colossus’ (1883) John Macdonald, Letters to and from Sir John A. Macdonald (1884) E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), ‘My English Letter’ (1888) ‘Miss Ida B. Wells’s Plea for the Negro: She Describes Her Labors in England to Arouse Sentiment Against Lynching’ (1894) 　 　Theodore Roosevelt, From ‘What "Americanism" Means’ (1894) Rudyard Kipling, ‘The White Man’s Burden’ (1899) Randolph Bourne, From ‘Trans-national America’ (1916) Arthur C. Parker, From ‘The American Indian in the World Crisis’ (1918) Anzia Yezierska, From ‘How I Found America’ (1920) Religion and SecularismPhillis Wheatley, ‘On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA’ (1773)John Marrant, From A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant: A Black (1785) Joseph Priestley, From ‘Preface’ to　The Present State…; A Sermon (1794) Washington Irving, ‘The Country Church’ (1819) Frances Trollope, ‘Chapter VIII’, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) Abon Becr Sadika and Richard Robert Madden, From Madden’s ‘Letter XXXI: The Scherife of Timbuctoo’ (1835) Anna Brownell Jameson, From ‘Religious Opinions’, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838) Grace Aguilar, ‘The Wanderers’ (1845) Cecil F. H. Alexander, ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ (1848) Eliza R. Snow, ‘Queen Victoria’ (1856) Youth’s Companion, ‘Irish Jim’ (1857) Elizabeth Gaskell, From ‘Part the Third’, Lois the Witch (1859) William and Ellen Craft, From Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) Charles Bradlaugh, From ‘Humanity’s Gain from Unbelief’ (1889) E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), ‘Brier: Good Friday’ (1893) and ‘The Happy Hunting Grounds’ (1889)Frances Power Cobbe, From ‘Religion’ in Life of Frances Power Cobbe (1894) Woods Hutchinson, From ‘The Fifth Gospel’, The Gospel According to Darwin (1898) Helen Barrett Montgomery, ‘Charlotte Tucker’, Western Women in Eastern Lands (1910) Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa), From ‘Religion’ and ‘The Transition Period: The Christian Missionary’ in ‘The North American Indian’ Address (1911) Science and TechnologyBenjamin Franklin, ‘Letter from Dr. Franklin to Mr. M. Collinson’ (1776) Charles Babbage, ‘Application of Machinery to the Calculating and Printing of Mathematical Tables’ (1822) Frances Calderón de la Barca, From Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country (1843) Harriett Martineau, ‘Miss Martineau on Mesmerism’ (1844) Charles Darwin, From Chapter V, ‘Bahia Blanca’, Voyage of the Beagle (1845) Nineteenth-Century Responses to Cholera Epidemics (1851, 1871)The Advent of a Transatlantic Communications Network: The Atlantic Cable George Wilson, ‘The Atlantic Wedding Ring’ (1858)‘Ocean Telegraphy’ (1866) Asa Gray, From ‘Review of Darwin’s Theory on the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection’ (1860) Maria Mitchell, ‘Mrs. Somerville’, From Life, Letters, and Journals (1896) ‘Professor Morse’ (1872) Antoinette Brown Blackwell, ‘Sex and Evolution’, From The Sexes throughout Nature (1875) P. E. C., ‘Facts and Theories’ [on thermodynamics] (1876) Walt Whitman, ‘ORIGINS — Darwinism — (Then Furthermore.)’, Two Rivulets (1876) Louis Jackson, From Our Caughnawagas in Egypt (1885) Walt Whitman, Section 31, ‘Song of Myself’, Leaves of Grass (1881) Elizabeth Blackwell, From Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches (1895) W. J. Stillman, ‘Agassiz and Darwin’ (1896) H. C. Foxcroft, From ‘A Negro On Efficiency’ (1906) [on Booker T. Washington] John Muir, From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913) Margaret Todd, From The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake (1918) Suffrage and CitizenshipThomas Jefferson et al., From The Declaration of Independence (1776) Jean-Jacques Dessalines, From The Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804) Jonah Barrington, From Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation (1833) Maria Weston Chapman, ‘The Times That Try Men’s Souls’ (1837) Harriet Martineau, From Society in America (1837) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, From ‘Address on Woman’s Rights’ (1848) Thomas Carlyle, From ‘Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question’ (1849) Frederick Douglass, From ‘What to the American Slave is your 4th of July?’ (1852) John Jacob Thomas, From Froudacity (1889) Anna Julia Cooper, From ‘The Higher Education of Women’, A Voice from the South (1892) Frances E. W. Harper, ‘Maceo’ (1900) E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), ‘The Lodge of the Law-makers’ (1906) Ellen Newbold La Motte, From ‘Caught in Suffragette Riot, Ellen N. La Motte, of Baltimore, Is Knocked Down and Then—Well, She Writes About It’ (1913) Emmeline Pankhurst, From Verbatim Report of Mrs. Pankhurst’s Speech, Delivered Nov. 13, 1913 at Parsons’ Theatre, Hartford, Conn. (1913) Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkála-Šá), ‘Editorial Comment’ (1919) Travel and TourismFrances Trollope, From ‘New-Orleans—Society—Creoles and Quadrooms—Voyage up the Mississippi’, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)　 Anna Brownell Jameson, From Winter Studies and Summer Rambles (1838) Charles Dickens, From ‘An American Railroad. Lowell and its Factory System’, American Notes for General Circulation (1842)　 Frances Calderón de la Barca, From Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in That Country (1843)　Charles Darwin, From Voyage of the Beagle (1845) Margaret Fuller, From ‘New and Old World Democracy’ (1848) Nancy Gardner Prince, From A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1850) William Wells Brown, From The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad (1855) Kahkewāquonāby, From Life and Journals of Kah-ke-wa-quo-nā-by: (Rev. Peter Jones,) Wesleyan Missionary (1860) Samuel Langhorne Clemens [Mark Twain], From The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress　(1869)　 Jack London, ‘Chapter I—The Descent’, From The People of the Abyss (1903) Djuna Barnes, ‘Why Go Abroad—See Europe in Brooklyn!’ (1913) Ezra Pound, ‘Provincia Deserta’ (1915) Edith Wharton, ‘In Fez’, From In Morocco (1920) Langston Hughes, ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ (1921) Author Listings

Transatlantic Anglophone Literature, 1776-1920: An Anthology pushes productively against the conventional limits of several of its key terms: Atlantic, Anglophone, literature, and anthology. Indeed, it is their reenvisioning of the anthology as a dynamic, interactive form that enables Linda K. Hughes, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Andrew Taylor to challenge the parameters of other key terms. By supplementing the print anthology with an open-access digital anthology, the editors have built in the capacity for growth and change. [...] If the Norton Anthologies embodied the weightiness and distinctness of the British and US literary canons, Transatlantic Anglophone Literature captures the rapid expansion of transatlantic literary studies as it has recognized previously marginalized voices and perspectives.