Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: British and American genres
Eve Tavor Bannet and Susan Manning
1
Transatlantic books and literary culture
Richard B. Sher
2
Transatlantic utopianism and the writing of America
Wil Verhoeven
3
Tales of wonder, spiritual autobiographies, and providence tales
Jim Egan
4
Life writings
Susan C. Imbarrato
5
Benjamin Franklin and transatlantic literary journalism
Carla Mulford
6
Theatre, drama, performance
Jeffrey H. Richards
7
Transatlantic American Indians
Tim Fulford
8
Literature of the ocean
Janet Sorensen
9
“To gird this watery globe”: Freneau, Barlow, and American neoclassical poetry
Paul Giles
10
Ghostly and vernacular presences in the black Atlantic
Alan Rice
11
Susanna Rowson and the transatlantic captivity narrative
Lise Sorensen
12
Domestic fiction and the reprint trade
Eve Tavor Bannet
13
Transatlantic Gothic
Robert Miles
14
Transatlantic Romanticisms
Colleen Glenney Boggs
15
Journeys of the imagination in Wheatley and Coleridge
Joel Pace
16
Transatlantic historical fiction
Susan Manning
Further reading
Index