Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850

Annika Bautz is Associate Professor in English at Plymouth University, UK.Kathryn N. Gray is Reader in Early American Literature at Plymouth University, UK.

• CONTENTSIntroductionPart I: Travelling Subjects and Transitive IdentitiesChapter One: Romancing the Slave Trade; Or, Reformation in Mansfield’s ParkElizabeth FayChapter Two: ‘‘That Dreadful, Delightful City": Edgar Allan Poe and the Transatlantic Essaying of LondonSimon Peter HullChapter Three: "Humble Auxiliaries to Nature": Go-Betweens and Natural Knowledge in Crèvecoeur’s Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New YorkKathryn GrayChapter Four: Writing Pocahontas: Romantic Women Writers and the Transatlantic Rescuing Indian MaidenMelissa Adams-CampbellPart II: Ancient Decline and Nineteenth-Century MoralitiesChapter Five: The Politics of Disaster in Lydia Maria Child’s Philothea: A Grecian Romance (1837)Matthew DuquesChapter Six: Christian Morality and Roman Depravity: Illustrating Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) in a Transatlantic Literary MarketAnnika BautzPart III: Transatlantic Print Culture and Transitive TextsChapter Seven: Virtual Museums in Early America: Transatlantic Magazine Culture and Cultural MemoryJulia StraubChapter Eight: Cultural Transfer in the German Atlantic: Brown, Oertel, and the First Translation of a U.S. NovelLeonard von MorzéChapter Nine: William Blake’s American Afterlives: Transatlantic Poetics in Emerson and WhitmanClare Frances ElliottChapter Ten: American Notes and English Guidebooks: (Re)Writing English Literature in Melville and DickensKatie McGettigan and Diana PowellIndex