Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850

Download or read book Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850 written by Annika Bautz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Travelling Subjects and Transitive Identities -- 1 Reformation in Mansfield Park : The Slave Trade and the Stillpoint of Knowledge -- 2 "That Dreadful, Delightful City": Edgar Allan Poe's Essaying of London -- 3 "Humble Auxiliaries to Nature": Go-Betweens and Natural Knowledge in Crèvecoeur's Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York -- 4 Writing Pocahontas: Romantic Women Writers and the Transatlantic Rescuing Indian Maiden -- PART II: Ancient Decline and Nineteenth-Century Moralities -- 5 Women of Colour, Politics and the Plague in Lydia Maria Child's Philothea: A Grecian Romance -- 6 Christian Morality and Roman Depravity: Illustrating Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii in a Transatlantic Literary Market -- PART III: Transatlantic Print Culture and Transitive Texts -- 7 Virtual Museums in Early America: Transatlantic Magazine Culture and Cultural Memory -- 8 Cultural Transfer in the German Atlantic: Brown, Oertel, and the First Translation of a U.S. Novel -- 9 William Blake's American Afterlives: Transatlantic Poetics in Emerson and Whitman -- 10 American Notes and English Guidebooks: (Re)writing English Literature in Melville and Dickens -- List of Contributors -- Index